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THE    SOCIETY 


FOR 


PROPAGATING  THE   GOSPEL 


AMONG    THE    INDIANS   AND    OTHERS 
IN    NORTH   AMERICA. 


I787-1887. 


225  Copies. 

PRINTED    FOR    THE    SOCIETY. 

ainfbcvsfti)  ^vcss. 

1887. 


CONTENTS. 


PAGE 

Officers  and  Committees,  1887 

Historical  Sketch  of  the  Society,  i  787-1 887,  and  Notes  on 
ITS  Publications 

By  James  F.  Hunnewell. 

Act  of  Incorporation,  1787 j. 

From  the  original,  and  the  Society's  edition,  1806. 

Historical  Sketch  .    ... 

17 

By  the  Rev.  Peter  Thacher,  D.D.,  explaining  "the  Institution, 

Design,   etc.  »  of  the   Society  ;   reprinted  from  a  quarto 

pamphlet  published  by  it,  Boston,  1798. 

A  Brief  History    .    . 

23 

Portions,  not  in  the  preceding,  published  by  the  Society  in  1804. 
Account  of  the  Funds  of  the  Society,  May  18,  1803  .    .    .    26 

Published  with  the  last-named  work. 
Richard  Gary's  Letter  on  Col.  Alford's  Bequest  ....    27 
Reprinted  from  the  original  4°  of  1789,  giving  reasons  and  con- 
ditions relating  to  this  early  and  important  gift. 
Presidents,  Secretaries,  and  Treasurers,  i 787-1887    ...    33 

Members  of  the  Society,  1787- 1887 

Missionaries,  and  Objects  aided,  1787-1887 30 

By-Laws,  adopted  May  26,  1887 

Index        

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OFFICERS    OF    THE    SOCIETY 

Elected  at   the  Annual   Meeting,  May  26,  1887. 
from  the  records. 


Rev.  ANDREW   P.   TEABODY,  D.D. 

TJfccsDrcsOicnt. 
SAMUEL    JOHNSON,  Esq., 

Sccvctar]?. 
Rev.  ALEXANDER    McKENZIE,  D.D. 

glssfstant  Sccvctavn. 
Rev.  HENRY  W.    FOOTE. 

Svcasurcr, 
Hon.  SAMUEL    C.    COBB. 

Vfcesjrrcnsurcr. 
WILLIAM    PERKINS,  Esq. 

(Died  July  13,  1887.) 

Select  CCommfttec. 


The  President, 

Rev.  J.  H.  Morison,  D.D., 

Rev.  Henry  F.  Jenks, 


William  Perkins,  Esq., 
Roger  Wolcott,  Esq., 
James  F.  Hunnewell,  Esq. 


CTommfttec  on  33i)=2lato.s  antr  JJiiIilfcation. 

Hon.  George  S.  Hale,  James  F.  Hunnewell, 

Rev.  Henry  F.  Jenks,  The  Secretary  of  the  Society. 


Slutiftots. 

J.  Huntington  Wolcott,  Esq.,       Arthur  Lincoln,  Esq., 

J.  Randolph  Coolidge,  Jr.,  Esq. 


HISTORICAL    SKETCH. 


r^N  the  19th  of  November,  1787,  twenty-one  ^  clergymen  and 
V-^  laymen,  "with  such  others  as  they  [should]  elect,"  were  in- 
corporated by  the  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts  as  "  The  So- 
ciety FOR  Propagating  the  Gospel  among  the  Indians  and 
OTHERS  IN  North  America,"  in  order  that  they  might  "be  the 
better  enabled  to  carry  into  effect"  that  design.  Under  powers 
described  in  the  Act,^  the  Society,  limited  to  fifty  members,  who 
were  to  "have  perpetual  succession,"  was  organized,  and  its  mis- 
sionary work  was  begun. 

While  it  thus  had  an  honorable  place  among  the  early  under- 
takings in  the  newly  established  nation,  it  was,  however,  continuing 
operations  long  before  pursued.  With  the  maintenance  of  the  insti- 
tutions of  the  Church  of  England,  the  spread  of  Christianity  among 
the  Indians  here  was  also  sought  by  "The  Society  for  the  Propa- 
gation of  the  Gospel  in  Foreign  Parts,"  chartered  by  William  III., 
June  16,  1 701.  Yet  even  this  organization  had  predecessors  in  the 
good  work.     Charles  II.,  in  1661,  had  incorporated  a  "Company 

1  "Richard  Cranch,  of  Braintree,  Esq.,  Rev.  John  Clark,  of  Boston,  Francis 
Dana,  of  Cambridge,  Esq.,  Rev.  Joseph  Eckley,  and  John  Eliot,  of  Boston.  Rev. 
Nathaniel  Emmons,  of  Franklin.  Rev.  Levi  Frisbie.  of  Ipswich,  Moses  Gill  of 
Pnncetown,  and  William  Hyslop,  of  Brookline.  Esq'rs,  Rev.  Timothy  Hil- 
lard,  of  Cambridge,  Jonathan  Mason,  of  Boston,  Esq,  Rev.  Phillips  Payson,  of 
Chelsea,  Rev.  Ehphalet  Porter,  and  Increase  Sumner,  Esq.,  of  Ro.xb«ry,  Eben- 
ezer  Storer,  Esq.,  Rev.  Peter  Thacher,  and  Oliver  Wendell,  Esq.,  of  Boston 
Rev.  Joseph  WUIard  and  Edward  Wigglesworth,  and  Samuel  Williams.  Doctor' 
of  Laws,  of  Cambridge,  and  the  Rev.  Ebenezer  Wight,  of  Boston."  (Dr  Eck- 
ley s  Discourse,  Appendix,  p.  25,  1S06.) 
'^  Reprinted  on  pp.  13-16  following. 


for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gospel  amongst  the  Heathen  Natives  of 
New  England,  and  the  Parts  adjacent  in  America,"  of  which  the 
distinguished  Hon.  Robert  Poyle  was  the  first  Governor.  But 
"this  Design,"  says  Dr.  Humphreys,'  was  thought  to  be  "too  nar- 
row, .  .  .  and  could  by  no  means  answer  the  Wants  of  all  the 
Foreign  Plantations,  and  all  the  Heathen  Nations  adjacent."  Its 
work  was  taken  up  by  the  larger  Society  formed  after  the  great  Rev- 
olution, somewhat  as  that  had,  after  the  Restoration,  in  a  measure 
succeeded  to  another  even  earlier,  in  which  we  find  the  beginning 
of  a  mode  of  corporate  operations  still  carried  on  by  the  American 
Society.  It  was  amid  the  stir  in  thought  and  deed  at  the  rise  of 
the  English  Commonwealth  that  the  pioneer  originated,  grew,  and 
acted,  the  representative  of  Puritan  devotion  and  missionary  spirit. 
On  the  27th  of  July,  1649,  "the  Commons  of  England  assembled 
in  Parliament,"  enacted  that  from  thenceforth  there  should  be  a 
Corporation  ^  of  sixteen  persons  in  England,  who  should  have  "  per- 
petual succession,"  and  be  called  "  The  President  and  Society  for 
propagation  of  the  Gospel  in  New  England."  They  were  author- 
ized to  hold  iDroperty,  and  to  pay  money  to  "  the  Commissioners 
of  the  United  Colonies "  of  New  England,  or  to  such  as  these 
should  appoint,  the  money  to  be  disposed  of  '*  in  such  maner 
as  shall  best  and  principally  conduce  to  the  preaching  and 
propagating  of  the  (  1  of  Jesus  Christ  among  the  Natives,  and 

also  for  maintaining  o.  chools  and  Nurseries  of  Learning,  and  for 
the  better  education  of  the  Children  of  the  Natives."  Even  this 
pioneer  Corporation  was  not  first  in  the  work ;  for  before  societies, 
and  prompting  their  efforts,  were  scattered  missionaries,  of  whose 
labors  we  still  read,  even  in  the  quaint  titles  of  the  Reports  from 
time  to  time  issued,  such  as  "New  England's  First  Fruits  "  (1643), 
"  The  Day  Breaking  if  not  the  Sun  Rising  of  the  Gospell  with  the 
Indians"  there  (1647),  the  "Clear  Sunshine"  (1648),  and  "Strength 
out  of  Weakness"  (1652).     Of  the  success  of  corporate  work  we 


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1  Humphreys,  David  (D.D.),  An  Historical  Account  of  the  Incorpo- 
rated Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gospel  in  Foreign  Parts.  Sm.  4°, 
pp.  xxxi  +  356,  London,  1730  (p.  6),  and  8°,  pp.  135,  New  York,  1853  (p.  10). 

'^  These  extracts  are  from  the  Act  as  printed  in  black  letter  (folio,  pp.  7), 
under  the  seal  of  the  Commonwealth,  "  Die  Veneris,  27  Julii,  1649,"  London. 


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Icani  from  history,  and  sec  it,  if  wc  cannot  read  of  it,  on  tlie 
printed  pages  of  the  first  American  IJible  or  the  even  rarer  pa-es 
of  primers.  From  physic  for  the  body  to  medicine  for  the  soul, 
from  aid  to  the  primary  school  in  tlie  wilderness  to  the  support  of 
the  college,  varied  the  lielp  of  the  old  Puritan  missionary  society. 

Thus  by  preachers  through  the  early  years  of  colonization  here 
and  then  by  help  from  English  corporations,  the  work  of  Christian- 
iznig  the  Indians  was  pursued  ;  thus  througli  a  succession  of  .^rcat 
changes -the  Civil  War,  the  Restoration,  and  the  Revolution -in 
England,  Puritanism  and  Episcopacy  conducted  it,  until  another 
change,  of  even  greater  importance  to  this  country,— our  own 
Revolution, —  left  the  field  open  for  American  effort. 

While  the  existing  Society  here  continues  the  work  for  the  In- 
dians, and  may  fairly  be  considered  the  American  successor  in  a 
prolonged  effort,  it  is  hardly  a  descendant  or  an  heir,  but  a  native 
acting  on  its  own  ground  in  a  way  honored  by  time  and  past  devo- 
tion.     In  the  year  of  its  incorporation  several  gentlemen   of  or 
near   IJoston   were   commissioned    by  a  Scottish  Society  to  take 
charge   of   funds   to    aid    in   "Christianizing   the    Indians    in   this 
country."    (Hrief  History,^  1S04.)     These   Commissioners  thouo-ht 
that  they  might  act,  not  alone  as  agents,  "but  also  as  principafs  " 
The  spirit  of  Independence  had  been  born,  and  it  appeared  was 
growing;  they  no  longer  were  subjects  in  a  Province,  but  citizens  in 
a  Nation.    Consequently  they  revived  a  design,  proposed  in  l^G^  to 
establish  a  "  Society  for  the  promotion  of  Christian  Knowled-e  " 
but  that  was  not  then  carried  out  because  it  was  not  sanctioned 
by  George   III. ;    and    the    Society   for   Propagating   the    Gospel 
was  the  result,  so  successful  that  in  the  present  year   it   attains 
its  centennial. 

On  reviewing  its  operations  we  find,  by  the  Report  in  1803  that 
sixteen  years  after  its  establishment,  twelve  Benefactors  had  given 
It  $17,514.51,  besides  $1,561.01  collected  by  Brief;  that  its^otal 

'  ;'';i"'<^^;;vith  Rev.  Dr.  Lathrop's  Discourse,  1804,  wlu:re  it  is  stated  (note 
p.  32)  that      a  brief  accoiuit  of  the  Society  drawn  up  by  tlieir  order  [was I  pub- 
hshed  ni    1-97,  by  their  Secretary,  the  late  Rev.  Dr. 'Thatclier."      40    '  '    , 
Boston,   ly^^repuUcU  on  pp.   17-.3.)     Additions  n.ade  to  this  account    and 
contained  in  the  "  Enef  History,"  are  also  repintcd  pp.  23-6 


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fmicls  werr  $23,417.35,^101  its  income  $1,145.83;  that  for  "many 
years  "  it  received  an  annual  grant  from  the  Legislature  ;  and  also 
that  it  had  paid,  in  whole  or  in  part,  four  missionaries  among  In- 
dians, eighteen  in  the  District  of  Maine,  and  two  on  the  Isles  of 
Shoals.  We  further  observe  that  its  accounts  were  then  kept  in 
a  way  to  which  we  may  he  jireparing  to  return,  for  they  were 
expressed  in  "nominal  dollars"  and  in  "real  dollars." 

I'y  far  the  largest  contributor  to  the  endowment  was  the  Hon. 
John  Alford,  l)y  his  executor,  Richard  Gary,  both  of  Charlestown. 
A  letter  of  the  latter,  dated  at  that  place  May  27,  1789,  and  ad- 
dressed to  the  Members  of  this  Society,  describes  the  bequest,  and 
at  the  same  time  forms  i)robal)Iy  the  earliest  and  rarest  of  the  two- 
score  or  more  pamphlets  relating  to  the  Society's  affairs.  The 
money  was  delivered  in  the  form  of  eleven  specie  bonds,  six  conti- 
nental certificates,  six  notes  of  Massachusetts,  and  other  certificates 
"  estimated  at  a  less  value."  Colonel  Alford,  it  is  stated,  "  was  de- 
sirous the  Aboriginals  should  be  both  civilized  and  Christianized  ; 
that  the  Gospel  should  be  sent  into  the  dark,  benighted  parts  of 
the  land;"  and  for  faithfully  seconding  his  designs,  his  Executor 
received  the  cordial  thanks,  and  was  elected  to  membership,  of  the 
Society.     (This  important  letter  is  reprinted  on  pp.  27-32.) 

J»y  the  twenty-fifth  year  of  its  age  its  funds,  and  consequently  its 
operations,  had  but  slightly  increased.  Ten  missionaries  were  at 
that  time  employed.  In  1836,  the  year  before  the  semi-centennial, 
the  funds  had  grown  to  $34,300,  and  the  income  to  $1,874,  in  which 
amounts  there  was  not  for  a  while  much  variation.  At  this  i^eriod, 
it  may  be  added,  about  half  of  the  funds  were  invested  in  bank 
stocks,  and  about  half  in  notes  and  mortgages.  In  1840,  when,  by 
the  Report,  the  Society  was  already  styled  "ancient  and  \ener- 
able,"  seven  missionaries  and  a  teacher  of  the  poor  in  Cincinnati 
were  employed,  the  former  chiefly  in  regions  of  Massachusetts  and 
at  the  West  that  were  "  destitute  of  the  stated  means  of  religion." 
That  the  Society  sowed  good  seed,  and  knew  where  to  do  it,  is 
shown  by  the  fact  that  in  this  year  its  ministrations  were  exercised 
in  places  since  known  to  Bostonians,  as  well  as  to  others,  for  asso- 
ciations with  solid  worth  ;  for  it  then  had  missionaries  in  Chicago, 
Burlington,  and  Quincy.      Of  the  former  place  it  seems  to  have 


then  been  thoiitj;IU  necessary  to  tell  the  position,  "  in  tlie  north  part 
of  .lie  State  of  Illinois." 

Piiring  its  first  iialf-century  the  Society  had  distiibutcd  a  large 
number  of  religious  books  and  tracts.  Until  1836  it  had  sup- 
ported, or  helped  to  support,  missionaries  or  preachers  in  the  fron- 
tier settlements  in  Maine  ;  but  as  the  population  there  increased, 
aid  was  much  less  needed,  while  at  the  same  time  similar  wants 
arose  "  in  the  extreme  Western  States,"  and  thither  the  operations 
of  tiie  Society  were  transferred.  For  many  years  help  was  given  at 
the  Isles  of  Shoals,  where  the  inhabitants  could  not  alone  maintain 
institutions  of  religion.  As  early  as  1808  a  missionary  was  sent  to 
the  northwestern  parts  of  Vermont  and  New  York,  and  to  the  State 
of  Ohio.  The  Society  seems  to  have  been  constantly  trying  to  gain 
information  about  the  various  Indian  tribes,  and  to  have  minis- 
tered to  many  of  them.  Before  1S03.  and  later  (in  and  after  1817), 
it  helped  those  at  Martha's  Vineyard  and  Marshpee  (Harvard  Col- 
lege taking  a  special  charge  here  in  1809  and  subsequently),  and 
maintained  a  mission  and  school,  as  it  did  for  a  long  while  at  New 
Stockbridge,  near  Oneida.  In  1810  help  had  recently  been  given  to 
the  Narragansetts  and  Wyandots,  and  was  continued;  in  1817,  and 
later,  to  the  Senecas  and  MunseeSj  in  1823,  to  the  Passamaquod- 
dies,  and  Indians  on  Nantucket ;  and  in  1825,  to  the  Penobscots. 

By  1843,  says  the  Report  for  that  year,  it  was  deemed  "  neces- 
sary to  discontinue  missions  to  the  Indians  of  the  Narraganset  and 
other  tribes,  once  flourishing  but  [then]  rapidly  disappearing  in 
New  England,"  and  to  use  the  Indian  Fund  elsewhere.  The  partial 
support  of  a  native  preacher  and  of  a  Boarding  School  among  the 
Cherokees  was  consequently  undertaken.  A  mission  "  to  destitute 
places  on  the  frontiers  of  Massachusetts  and  Vermont,"  and  that  to 
the  Isles  of  Shoals,  were  then  the  only  ones  "  sustained  within  New 
England;"  while  attention  was,  as  "for  many  years,"  "especially 
directed  to  the  West."  In  1845  the  property  of  the  Society,  in- 
cluding the  Alford  Fund  of  $9000,  was,  by  the  Report,  $45,952.98, 
of  which  $26,250  was  in  bonds  and  mortgages,  $15,314  in  bank 
stock,  and  $4,180  in  forty-four  shares  of  stock  of  the  Western 
Railroad,  —  a  new  form  of  investment  that  then  appeared.  "The 
income  for  the  year  past  was  $2,152.60,  which  [was]  greater  than 

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the  average  of  the  last  seven  years."  Financial  prosperity,  indeed, 
seems  to  have  continued  for  a  considerable  period  (1836-55),  the 
funds  then  steadily  increasing  from  $34,300  to  $52,852.21.  Rail- 
road companies  Jiad  mca;, while  grown  to  offer  such  facilities  for 
investment,  that  of  the  latter  amount  nearly  one  quarter  ($11,587.84) 
was  held  in  their  stocks. 

For  a  considerable  period  also  the  Society's  help  was  given  in  the 
directions  already  mentioned.  Amo'^g  the  Indians  operations 
during  1847  were  necessarily  limited  in  Massachusetts  to  the  few 
left  at  A^arshpee  and  Herring  Pond  ;  and  efforts  were  turned  to 
the  West  and  Northwest,  aid  being  furnished  to  the  Ojibways,  the 
Oneidas  at  Green  Bay,  and  to  two  scholars  in  Albion  Seminary. 
At  this  time  there  were  in  all  nine  missionaries  and  one  teacher 
employed.  In  185 1  similar  aid  was  given  to  the  remnants  of 
the  Oneidas  and  the  Onondagas  in  New  York,  to  those  at  Herring 
Pond  and  Gay  Head  in  Massachusetts,  to  some  of  St.  Regis,  and 
two  scholars  in  seminaries. 

At  the  Sixty-seventh  Annual  Meeting  (1855)  '^  ^^U  ^^^^  ^^^ 
important  Report  was  presented,  and  was  subsequently  printed 
(8'^,  pp.  iv -f  135*  1856).  It  contains  a  long  account  of  the  Alford 
Fund,  especially  of  the  conditions  attached,  and  of  the  current 
and  past  operations,  and  is  not  surpassed  in  value  by  any  other 
publication  by  the  Society.  This,  and  the  two  Reports  following, 
made  in  1861  (issued  1862)  and  in  1869,  are  so  recent,  and  contain 
such  extended  details,  that  no  abridgment  need  be  here  attempted. 

Already  the  history  of  corporations  in  this  country  is  showing  that 
age,  even  of  a  century,  not  only  does  not  impair  usefulness,  but  can 
add  strength  and  give  promise  of  a  future  with  increased  means  and 
extended  operations.  By  the  report  of  the  Select  Committee,  and 
the  account  of  the  Treasurer  of  the  Society  for  the  past  year,  evi- 
dence is  given  not  only  to  prove  this  general  statement,  but  to 
attest  to  the  special  fact  of  the  still  active  life  and  fresh  hopes  of 
what  we  may  now  well  call,  in  its  hundredth  year,  "  the  ancient  and 
venerable  "  Society  for  Propagating  the  Gospel  among  the  Indians 
and  others  in  North  America. 


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Discourses  before  the  Society  were  preached  from  1804  to  1836, 
both  years  included,  except  in  1831.  After  1836  ''public  anniver- 
saries were  discontinued,"  and  were  not  renewed  until  1847. 

The  discourses  by  the  following  clergymen  70drd  printed :  — 


i  i 


^f 


1804, 

Jan. 

19 

1804, 

Nov 

•I, 

IS05, 

)) 

7, 

1806, 

)> 

c, 

1807, 

>» 

5. 

IS08, 

)> 

3. 

I8I0, 

)> 

I. 

iSii, 

» 

7. 

I8I3, 

)» 

4, 

1814, 

»> 

1 

0' 

I8I7, 

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6, 

1820, 

)) 

9» 

I82I, 

>> 

I, 

IS23, 

>> 

6. 

1825, 

») 

3. 

1827, 

)> 

I, 

1829, 

)i 

s. 

1830, 

11 

4. 

Boston,  with  an 

Appendix,  pp.  44 

Ipswich, 

>    38 

Boston, 

.     36 

Ralcm, 

.     39 

Roxbury, 

»i 

,     24 

Cambridge, 

,    68 

Cliailestowr 

, 

It 

,    72 

riymouth. 

,     44 

Dcclham, 

>) 

.     44 

,     44 

Brighton, 

>> 

.     44 

Boston, 

,    40 

Chelsea, 

,     48 

Dorchester, 

f} 

-     50 

Dorchester, 

,     44 

Anclover, 

,     42 

Boston, 

]• 

,     44 

11 

.     51 

Jan.  19,  by  John  Lathrop,  D.D.,  of 
Levi  Frishek,  A.M., 

Jos.  KCKI.EY,  D.D., 
Tiios.  Barnard,  D.D., 
Elip't  Porter,  D.D., 
AiiiEL  Holmes,  D.D., 
Jed.  AIorse,  D.D., 
Jas.  Kendall,  A.M., 
Joshua  Bates,  A.M., 
Elijah  Parish,  D.D., 
John  Foster,  D.D., 
Chas.  Lowell, 
Jos.  Tuckerman 
T.  M.  Harris,  D.D., 
John  Codman,  D.D., 
Ebenezer  Porter,  D.D., 
B.  B.  Wisner,  D.D., 
[A.  Bradford,  Sec] 


"^  Brief  Account  of  the  Present  State,  Income,"  etc.,  of  the 
Society,  "  By  Order,"  was  made  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Thacher,  Secre- 
tary, and  printed,  4",  pp.  3,  January,  1795. 

Reports  of  the  Select  Committee  were  printed  in  separate  pam- 
phlets for  1815  and  1816,  for  1818,  for  1819,  for  1822,  for  1824,  for 
1826,  for  1831,  for  1832,  for  1833,  and  for  1840.  They  were  also 
printed  with  the  Discourses  in  1817,  1S20,  1821,  1823,  1S25,  1827, 
1829,  and  1830.  Nothing  appears  to  have  been  published  for 
some  years  (1834-39)  by  the  Society,  and  then  (1840)  another 
Report  of  the  Select  Committee,  which  was  followed  by  similar 
pamphlets  from  1843  co  1848,  both  years  included,  and  others  in 
1850,  185 1,  1856,  1862,  and  1869.  Lists  of  Members  are  given  with 
the  Discourses  in  1804,  1805,  1807,  180S,  1810,  1813,  1814,  1817, 
7820,  1829,  and  of  those  then  living  in  1832  and  1833  ;  there  is  a 
very  full  list  added  to  the  Reports  in  1840,  1844-46,  1850,  1856, 
1862,  and  1869.     Names  of  the  Missionaries,  1790-1855,  and  their 


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fields  of  labor,  are  given  with  the  Report  of  1855.  ^^sfon^^^ 
S/:cfc/iesoi  the  Society  were  added  in  its  publications  January,  1804, 
and  i8s6,  besides  Dr.  Thacher's  Sketch,  1798  (see  pp.  17-23). 

The  Ad  of  Incorporation  oi  1787  is  printed  with  the  sermon  for 
1806  and  1829  and  in  Reports  for  1843  and  1845- 

Conditions  of  the  AJford bequest  are  given  in  the  Report  of  x'6^b, 
pp  ^-0  A  copy  of  the  rare  "  Brief  M  collecting  money  (1788)  is 
given  in  the  Report  at  the  Seventy-third  Annual  Meeting  1861. 
Joules  and  Regulations  of  the  Society  are  printed  with  the  Sermon 
of  180S,  published  1806,  and  a  substituted  article  on  the  Election 
of  Members  appears  with  Dr.  Barnard's  Sermon  of  Nov.  6  1806. 
A  further  resolution  about  forfeiture  of  membership,  adopted  No- 
vember, 1846,  is  printed  with  the  Reports  for  1848  and  1850. 

The  Publications  of  the  Society,  as  above,  number  39  pamphlets 
and  over  1500  pages. 

JAMES  F.  HUNNEWELL. 


Boston,  Nov.  21,  18S7 


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AN   ACT 

I'd  incorporate  certain  Persons,  by  the  Name  of  the  Society  for  Propa- 
gating the  Gospel  among  the  Indians,  and  others,  in  North  America} 
[As  printed  by  the  Society,  1806.] 


Whereas  divers  persons  have  petitioned  this  Court  for  an  act  of 
incorporation,  whereby  they  may  be  the  better  enabled  to  carry  into 
effect  their  design  of  propagating  the  Gospel  among  the  Indians  and 
others  in  North  America,  and  it  is  reasonable  that  the  prayer  of 
the  said  petition  should  be  granted :  Therefore,  to  promote  and  en- 
courage the  same, 

I.  Be  it  etiacted  by  the  Seriate  and  House  of  Representatives,  in  Gen- 
eral Court  assembled,  and  by  the  authority  of  the  same.  That  Richard 
Cranch,  of  Braintree,  Esq. ;  Rev.  John  Clark,  of  Boston  ;  Francis 
Dana,  of  Cambridge,  Esq. ;  Rev.  Joseph  Eckley  and  John  Eliot,  of 
Boston  ;  Rev.  Nathaniel  P-^mmons,  of  Franklin  ;  Rev.  '^evi  Frisbie, 
of  Ipswich ;  Moses  Gill,  of  Princetown,  and  William  Hyslop,  of 
Brookline,  Esq'rs. ;  Rev.  Timothy  Hilliard,  of  Cambridge  ;  Jonathan 
Mason,  of  Boston,  Esq. ;  Rev.  Phillips  Payson,  of  Chelsea ;  Rev. 
Eliphalet  Porter,  and  Increase  Sumner,  Esq.,  of  Roxbury;  Eben- 
ezer  Storer,  Esq.,  Rev.  Peter  Thacher,  and  Oliver  Wendell,  Esq., 
of  Boston  ;  Rev.  Joseph  Willard,  and  Edward  Wiggleswoith,  and 
Samuel  Williams,  Doctor  of  Laws,  of  Cambridge  ;  and  the  Rev. 
Ebenezer  Wight,  of  Boston,  be,  with  such  others  as  they  shall 
elect,  and  they  hereby  are  incorporated,  and  made  a  body  politic, 
for  the  purpose  aforesaid,  by  the  name  of  The  Society  for  Propa- 

1  In  the  original  Act,  on  file  in  the  office  of  the  Secretary  of  State,  the  names 
of  the  corporators  appear  in  dilTercnt  onler  and  without  residences,  but  an 
addition  is  made  at  the  end  of  the  Act,  placing  the  names,  residences,  etc.,  as 
here  printed.  Otherwise  the  original  and  this  type  agree,  except  "  [y}<r///tT] " 
h'^re  inserted  in  IV.,  and  a  slight  change  noted  in  VII.  —  J.  F.  II, 


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gating  the  Gospel  among  the  Indians,  and  others,  in  North  America ; 
and  the  Society  aforesaid,  shall  have  perpetual  succession,  and  may 
have  a  common  seal,  which  it  shall  be  lawful  foi  them  to  change, 
break,  alter,  and  make  new,  at  pleasure,  and  may  purchase  and 
hold  in  succession  lands,  tenements,  and  real  estate  of  any  kind, 
the  annual  income  and  profits  whereof  not  to  exceed  the  value  of 
two  thousand  pounds.  And  the  said  Society  is  hereby  enabled  to 
take  and  receive  subscriptions  of  charitably  disposed  persons,  and 
may  take  any  personal  estate  in  succession ;  and  all  donations  to 
the  Society,  either  by  subscription,  legacy,  or  otherwise,  excepting 
such  as  may  be  differently  appropriated  by  the  donors,  shall  make 
a  part  of,  or  be  put  into  the  capital  stock  of  the  Society,  which  sliall 
be  put  out  on  interest,  on  good  security,  or  otherwise  improved  to 
the  best  advantage,  and  the  income  or  profits  applied  to  the  pur- 
poses of  propagating  the  gospel  among  the  said  Indians,  in  such 
manner  as  they  shall  judge  most  conducive  to  answer  the  design  of 
their  institution ;  and  also  among  other  people,  who  through  pov- 
erty or  other  circumstances,  are  destitute  of  the  means  of  religious 
instruction  :  And  the  said  Society  is  hereby  empowered  to  give 
such  instructions,  orders,  and  encouragements  to  their  officers,  and 
those  they  shall  employ,  as  they  shall  judge  necessary ;  and  the 
persons  employed  as  teachers  in  any  capacity  shall  be  men  of  the 
Protestant  religion,  of  reputed  piety,  loyalty,  prudence,  knowledge 
and  literature,  and  of  other  Christian  and  necessary  qualifications 
suited  to  their  respective  stations. 

II.  And  he  it  further  enacted  by  the  authority  aforesaid,  That  the 
said  Society  shall  meet  at  some  convenient  place  in  the  town  of 
Boston,  on  the  first  Thursday  of  December  next,  and  then  choose  a 
President,  Vice-President,  Treasurer  and  Secretary,  and  such  other 
officers  as  they  shall  judge  proper,  and  may  make  by-laws  and 
orders,  for  the  regulation  of  the  said  Society  ;  provided  such  by- 
laws and  orders  be  not  repugi  ant  to  the  laws  of  the  land,  and  act 
upon  all  matters  which  they  apprehend  needful,  to  promote  the  end 
of  their  institution  :  And  the  officers  so  chosen  shall  continue  in 
their  office  until  the  Thursday  next  succeeding  the  last  Wednesday 
of  May  next  following  the  time  of  their  appointment. 


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III.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  there  shall  be  a  general  meet- 
ing of  the  members  of  the  said  Society,  at  Boston,  aforesaid,  or  in 
any  other  place  within  this  Commonwealth,  (unless  some  extraor- 
dinary occurrence  prevent  the  same)  on  the  Thursday  aforesaid  in 
May,  and  first  Thursday  of  November,  yearly,  forever,  and  oftener 
if  needful,  when  and  where  the  said  Society  shall  think  fit ;  and  any 
seven  of  the  members  (the  President,  Vice-President,  Treasurer  or 
Secretary  always  to  be  one),  being  convened  at  the  said  times  and 
places,  are  hereby  declared  to  be  a  quorum  of   the  said  general 
meeting ;  and  the  said  Society  at  their  general  meeting  in  May  in 
every  year  (and  in  case  of  any  extraordinary  occurrence  preventing 
their  meeting,  then  at  their  next  general  meeting  after)  shall  out  of 
their  own  body,  by  a  majority  of  the  members  present,  elect  a 
President,  Vice-President,  Treasurer  and  Secretary,  and  such  other 
officers  as  they  shall  find  needful,  to  continue  in  office  until  the  May 
meeting  next  following  their  appointment,  or  until  others  be  chosen 
to  succeed  them ;  and  all  the  officers  aforesaid,  before  they  shall  be 
qualified  to  act,  shall  be  under  oath,  for  the  faithful  performance  of 
their  respective  trusts ;  and  the  said  Society,  at  their  first,  or  any 
other  stated  meeting  (and  at  no  other)  may  elect  into  their  body, 
such  persons  as  they  shall  judge  qualified,  to  assist  them  in  their 
good  design  ;  provided  the  whole  number  of  the  said  Society,  shall 
at  no  time  exceed  fifty  members  ;  and  may  appoint  committees,  to 
prosecute  the  orders  of  any  general  meeting,  audit  the  Treasurer's 
accounts,  and  prepare  matters  for  the  Society  to  act  upon  ;  and  such 
committees  shall  exhibit  an  account  of  their  proceedings,  at  the 
general  meetings  of  said  Society. 


IV.  And  be  it  \^furthcr'\  enacted.  That  the  Society  aforesaid,  by 
the  name  aforesaid,  shall  be,  and  is  hereby  declared  to  be  capable 
to  prosecute,  pursue,  and  defend,  in  all  courts  and  places,  and  be- 
fore all  proper  judges  wliatsoever,  all  actions,  causes,  processes  and 
pleas,  of  what  kind  or  nature  soever,  in  the  fullest  and  amplest 
manner;  and  if  it  shall  happen  that  the  said  Society  shall  become 
seized  of  lands,  or  tenements  by  mortgage  as  security  for  the  pay- 
ment of  any  debts,  or  by  levying  executions  on  lands  for  discharge 
of  debts,  due  to  the  said  Society,  it  shall  be  lawful  for  the  said 


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Society,  by  deed  under  the  hand  and  seal  of  their  President,  for  the 
time  being,  to  sell  and  convey  the  lands  acquired  in  either  of  the 
two  mentioned  ways;  provided  that  no  such  sale  shall  be  made,  or 
concluded  on,  but  at  some  general  stated  meeting. 

V.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  said  Society,  be,  and 
hereby  is  empowered,  upon  the  death  of  their  President,  Vice- 
President,  Treasurer,  Secretary,  or  other  officer,  to  choose  others  at 
any  stated  general  meeting,  to  succeed  them  ;  and  may  also  remove 
any  of  their  officers,  when  they  shall  judge  expedient,  and  appoint 
others  to  succeed  them  therein.  Provided  always,  That  no  member 
shall  be  removed,  or  officers  displaced,  unless  at  one  of  the  stated 
general  meetings  as  aforesaid. 

And  to  the  end,  that  the  members  of  the  said  Society,  and  all  con- 
tributors to  the  said  design,  m::/  know  the  state  of  the  Society's 
stock,  and  the  dispositions  of  the  profits  thereof,  and  of  all  the 
donations  made  to  the  said  Society: 

VI.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  a  particular  account  of  such  stock 
and  disposition,  shall  be  exhibited  by  the  Treasurer,  at  eve  7  stated 
general  meeting ;  which  account,  the  Secretary,  or  a  committee  of 
the  said  Society,  (having  examined  the  same)  shall  cer..ty  to  be 
true  ;  and  fair  entries  shall  be  made  in  proper  books,  to  be  pro- 
vided for  that  purpose,  of  all  donations  made  to  the  said  Society, 
and  of  all  the  estate,  both  real  and  personal,  belonging  to  the  So- 
ciety, and  of  the  incomes  thereof,  and  also  of  all  transactions, 
either  by  themselves,  their  officers,  or  committees,  for,  or  on  account 
of  the  said  Society ;  and  the  said  books  shall  be  brought  to  the 
stated  general  meetings  of  the  Society,  and  be  there  open  for  the 
perusal  and  examination  of  the  members. 

VII.  And  it  is  further  enacted.  That  Moses  Gill,  Esq.  be,  and  he 
hereby  is  authorized,  by  public  notification,  in  Adams  and  Nourse's^ 
Independent  Chronicle,  to  call  the  first  meeting  of  the  said  Society, 
at  such  time  and  place,  in  the  town  of  Boston,  as  he  shall  judge 

proper. 

[This  act  passed  November  19,  1787.J 


1  "  Nourse  &  Adams's  "  in  the  original. 


17 


HISTORICAL   SKECTH 


OF  THE 


Injiitution^  Deftgn,  i^c.  of  the  Society  for  propagating  the  Gos- 
pel among  the  Indians  and  others  in  North  America. 


----c^'s^sfe^^^a- — 


IN  the  year  1762,  a  number  of  gentlemen  affociated  with  the  de- 
fign  of  eftablifliing  a  fociety  fimilar  to  that  of  which  we  are 
now  about  to  give  an  account.  They  colledled  a  large  fund,  and 
obtained  a  charter  of  incorporation  from  the  government  here,  and 
began  warmly  and  zealoufly  to  profecute  their  pious  and  bene  violent 
objc6l.  But,  when  the  a6l  of  their  incorporation  was  fent  to  Eng- 
land for  allowance,  the  Archbifliop  of  Canterbury,^  jealous  left  this 
fliould  interfere  with  the  fociety  eftabliflied  in  Great  Britain,  or  per- 
haps unwilling  that  perfons  not  well  affe6led  to  epifcopacy  (liould 
obtain  new  influence  and  power  by  this  means,  obtained  from  the 
King  a  negative  on  the  incorporating  bill.  It  fell  of  courfe,  and 
the  zeal  of  its  fupporters  in  a  great  meafure  fell  with  it ;  for  no 
more  was  heard  concerning  it  till  after  the  Revolution  which  made 
us  an  independent  people. 

In  the  year  1787,  a  commiflion  from  the  fociety  in  Scotland,  for 
propagating  chriltian  knowledge,  was  received  by  a  number  of 
gentlemen  in  Bofton  and  its  vicinity,  to  fuperintend  the  funds  of 
the  fociety  which  were  devoted  to  chriftianizing  the  aboriginal  na- 
tives of  America.  Afliamed  that  more  folicitude  for  this  objeA 
fliould  be  difcovered  by  foreigners  than  by  themfelves,  thefe  gentle- 
men revived  the  former  plan,  and  affociated  for  the  purpofe  of 
forming  a  fociety  fmiilar  to  that  in  Scotland.     They  petitioned  the 

^  Jafper  Mauduit's  letter  to  Mr.  Bowdoin,  dated  April  7,  1763. 


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General  Affembly  for  a  charter,  which  was  granted  them,  with  the 
adequate  powers,  at  the  clofe  of  the  fiinie  year,  1787. 

Their  next  objec!;!  was  to  raife  fucli  funds  as  (hould  be  neceffary 
for  the  purpofes  which  they  liad  in  view.  Two  methods  occurred, 
as  proper  to  be  taken.  One  was,  to  obtain  a  Brief  from  the 
AlTcmbiy  for  a  collection  in  all  the  churches  of  the  Itate.  This 
was  cheerfully  granted  ;  but  it  was  by  no  means  fo  produdive  as  might 
have  been  [3]  expe6ted,  the  whole  amount  of  it  being  only  1561 
dollars  and  one  cent.  The  other  was  a  private  fubfcription  among 
the  members  of  the  fociety  and  other  benevolent  and  pious  perfons. 
This  was  adopted  with  more  fuccefs ;  fo  that  now  the  funds  of  the 
fociety,  appropriated  to  their  general  purpofes,  yield  an  annual  in- 
come of  338  dollars  and  74  cents. 

The  late  Hon.  John  Alford,  Efq.  of  Charleflown,  in  his  lafl 
will,  devifed  a  large  fum  of  money  to  be  devoted  to  the  purpofe  of 
fpreading  the  knowledge  of  the  gofpcl  among  the  heathen.  His 
executor,  the  late  Richard  Gary,  Efq.  had  never,  till  the  incorpora- 
tion of  this  fociety,  found  any  body  of  men  to  whom  he  might  en- 
trufl  this  fum,  with  a  profped  of  its  being  applied  agreeably  to  the 
intentions  of  the  donor.  To  them,  however,  he  transferred  it,  and 
the  annual  income  arifmg  from  it  is  414  dollars  and  36  cents. 

In  the  difpoial  of  this  money,  the  fociety  have  confulted  the  befl 
intereds  of  the  Indians,  to  whom  it  is  folely  appropriated.     They 
affill  in  the  fupport  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Mayhew  of  Martha's  Vineyard, 
Mr.  Hawley  of  Marflipee,  and  Mr.  Sargeant  of  New-Stockbridge, 
all  of  whom  are  miflionaries  to  the  Indians.     On  Martha's  Vine- 
yard they  fupport  a  number  of  fmall  fchools  for  Indian  children. 
The  fociety  have  alfo  furniflied  to  the  fchools  which  are  fupported 
by  other  means  at  MarOipee,  Oneida,  and  New-Stockbridge,  books, 
paper,  and  every  neceffary.     Believing  that  to  civilize  thefe  people 
is  one  great  and  necefTary  flep  towards  chriffianizing  them,  the 
fociety  have  fupplied  the   Indian   inhabitants  of  New-Stockbridge 
with  many  implements  of  hufl^andry,  fuch  as  ploughs,  chains,  and 
hoes.     They  have  affifted   them  in    building  fchool-houfes   and  a 
houfe  for  their  minifler;  and  they  have  defrayed  the  expenfe  of 
printing  the  affembly's  catechifm,  which  had  been  tranflated  into 
the  language  of  thefe  Indians.    The  fociety  have  alfo  been  careful  to 


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diftribute  books  upon  pious  and  pradical  fubjcds,  in  fuch  numbers 
as  they  thought  expedient  and  ufcful.  In  this  way,  fince  the  fir(l 
eflablidnnent  of  the  inllitution,  the  Indians  have  received  38 
bibles,  84  teflaments,  150  fpelling-books,  85  primers,  48  Watts' 
pfahns  and  hymns,  18  pfalters,  and  79  other  books,  amounting  in 
the  whole  to  544. 

Notwithftanding  the  difcouragements  which  have  attended  ahnofl 
all  the  attempts  to  chriflianize  the  Indians,  the  fociety  feel  it  to  be 
their  duty  ftill  to  continue  them.  Their  funds  will  not  admit  of 
fending  miflionaries  into  diftant  parts  of  the  continent,  or  to  feek 
out  thofe  nations  of  Indians  who  are  wholly  unconnected  with  the 
white  inhabitants.  Their  attempts  are  confined  to  thofe  tribes  in- 
terfperfed  among  the  white  inhabitants,  or  in  their  neighborhood. 
The  wifli  of  the  fociety  is  to  propagate  and  cheridi  the  fpirit  of  Chrif- 
tianity  in  the  minds  of  thefe  people,  and,  as  their  means  and  oppor- 
tunity will  admit,  gradually  to  diffeminate  chriftian  knowledge 
among  more  diftant  tribes. 

That  part  of  the  funds  of  the  fociety  which  is  not  appropriated 
folely  to  the  Indians  [4]  has  been  expended  by  them  in  purchafing 
fchool-books,  and  books  of  piety  and  devotion,  which  have  been 
dillributed  among  the  poor  inhabitants  in  the  eaftern  parts  of  this 
commonwealth.  This  diflribution  has  been  followed  with  the  befl; 
effedls.  Children  have  had  the  means  of  inflrudion,  and  perfons  in 
more  advanced  life  have  had  the  fericus  impreffions,  early  made 
upon  their  minds,  revived  and  ftrengthencd,  which  they  would 
otherwife  have  been  in  great  danger  of  lofing  in  places  where  they 
cannot  enjoy  the  advantage  of  attending  upon  the  public  inftitutions 
^nd  ordinances  of  Chrillianity.  In  pr.  lecution  of  thefe  falutary 
purpofes,  the  fociety  have  given  away,  fmce  the  year  1787,  310 
bibles,  768  teflaments,  969  fpelling-books,  634  pfalters,  1566  prim- 
ers, 94  of  Watt's  pfalms  and  hymns,  78  of  Doddridge's  Rife  and 
Progrefs  of  Religion  in  the  Soul,  and  4024  other  books,  moftly 
pamphlets,  but  many  large  and  valuable  treatifes,  making  in  the 
whole  (if  we  include  what  were  given  to  the  Indians)  8987.  Some 
of  thefe  books  have  been  given  to  the  fociety,  in  confequence  of 
their  publickly  requefting  the  aid  of  pious  and  charitable  perfons  in 
efTeCling  the  purpofes  of  their  incorporation 

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Religion  in  the  Soul  "  is  mentioned  in  the  above  catalogue  of  books 
given  away  by  the  fociety,  and  the  publick  will  have  an  idea  of  the 
nature  of  the  practical  books  dillributed  when  it  is  faid  that  they 
bear  a  very  near  refemblance  to  this  excellent  treatife.  IJooks  of 
controvcrfy,  never,  in  a  fnigle  inllance,  have  entered  the  focietys' 
catalogue ;  for  their  obje(5t  is  not  to  edablilh  modes  and  forms,  nor 
to  propagate  any  private  or  party  fyflems  ;  their  objedl  is,  to  pro- 
mote the  interefts  of  true  religion,  and  bring  men  to  know  and  obey 
"  the  truth  as  it  is  in  Jefus." 

It  has  been  fuggeflcd,  that  thefe  books  have,  in  fome  places,  been 
partially  and  improperly  dillributed.  None  of  thefe  complaints 
have  been  authenticated  to  the  fociety,  and  they  hope  that  there  is 
no  foundation  for  them.  They  made  it  a  rule,  fo  long  as  it  was  found 
ufcful  and  practicable,  to  furnifli  their  miflionaries  with  books  to  be 
dillributed,  according  to  their  judgment,  in  the  feveral  places  where 
they  preached  and  baptized.  When  they  had  no  miflionaries,  or 
when  thefe  gentlemen  found  it  difficult  to  carry  the  books  with 
them  in  journies  of  fome  hundreds  of  miles,  the  fociety  fent  them  to 
gentlemen  of  honour,  characSler  and  abilities,  in  different  places, 
requeuing  them  to  take  the  trouble  of  furnifliing  their  poor  neigh- 
bours according  to  their  befl  judgment.  —  If,  in  any  one  inflance 
(and  in  more  than  one,  the  fociety  has  no  ground'-  for  fufpicion), 
this  has  not  been  done,  they  can  only  cxprefs  their  regret,  and  de- 
clare, that  they  always  meant  to  employ  perfons  of  integrity  and 
virtue  onlj',  in  this  pleafing  office. 

Miflionaries  were  mentioned,  in  the  lafl  paragraph,  as  deployed 
by  the  fociety.  Thefe  miflionaries  were  fent  to  the  vacant  towns 
and  plantations  in  the  eafl:ern  parts  of  this  commonwealth,  and  the 
fociety  have  been  enabled  to  fend  them  by  means  of  grants  made  to 
them  by  the  General  Affembly  of  this  commonwsalth.  In  confe- 
quence  of  a  [5]  petition  from  the  fociety,  prefented  in  the  year 
1 79 1,  the  treafurer  was  diredled  to  pay  them  five  hundred  dollars  a 
year,  for  three  years.  An  account  of  the  manner  in  which  this 
money  had  been  expended  was  printed  and  laid  before  the  General 
Court,  January,  1795,  with  a  petition,  that  the  grant  fliould  be 
continued  :  this  was  fo  far  complied  with  as  that  the  treafurer  was 
direfted  to  advance  rive  hundred  dollars  more  to  the  fociety.  This 
they  have  expended  in  the  following  manner,  viz. :  — 


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The  fum  remaining  of  the  former  grant  was   70  Dolls. 
Received  of  the  treafurer  in  1796  500 


Paid  in  1796. 


in  1797. 


To  Rev.  Ur.  Coffin, 

100 

Rev.  Mr.  Johnfon, 

100 

Rev.  Mr.  Strickland,  for  a 

miffion  0£  3  months, 

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To  Mr.  Coffin, 

100 

Rev  Mr.  Eaton, 

100 

570 


Remains  of  the  grants, 


550 


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The  perfons  whom  the  fociety  have  employed  as  miffionaries  were 
either  perfonally  known  to  them,  or  were  recommended  by  perfons 
in  whom  they  could  place  confidence.  They  have  reafon  to  believe 
that  their  fervices  were  ufeful ;  they  know  that  they  were  accept- 
able. The  people  attended  upon  their  minifirations  with  great 
readinefs  and  apparent  fatisfad:ion.  They  baptized  great  numbers 
of  children  and  many  adults.  In  feveral  places  they  have  gathered 
churches,  and  in  more  have  eftabliflied  and  confirmed  habits  of  re- 
gard to  the  duties  and  ofhces  of  religion  which  were  formed  before. 
Their  difcourfes  and  their  converfation  have  tended  to  check  the 
progrefs  of  error  and  vice,  and  to  confirm  the  wavering.  Full  and 
grateful  teflimonials  have  been  received  by  the  fociety  from  many 
places  on  thefe  fubje6ts ;  and  earnelt  requeits  prefented  to  them, 
that  they  would  continue  their  attentions  of  this  kind.  Should  the 
grants  be  continued  by  the  General  Afiembly,  (which  they  hope), 
thefe  requeffs  will  be  complied  with. 

The  allowance  made  to  the  miffionaries  of  fifty  dollars  a  month 
will  not  be  deemed  extravagant,  when  it  is  faid,  that  they  are  always 
ordained  minifters,  who  have  a  charge  at  home,  and  a  pulpit  which 
,they  muft  fupply.  This,  it  is  expe(R:ed,  they  will  do  from  their 
allowance ;  and  they  are  charged  alfo  never  to  be  burdenfome  to 
the  people  among  whom  they  minilter,  but  to  prove  to  them  that  a 
difinterelled  regard  to  their  good  alone  has  induced  their  vifit. 

[6]  But,  the  views  of  the  fociety,  with  refped;  to  the  manner  in 
which  their  miflions  fliould  be  conducted,  will  appear  more  plainly 
from  the  following  copy  of  the  initru(5tions  which  are  regularly  given 
to  all  their  miffionaries,  viz. 


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"  To  A.  B.  Miflionary,  &c. 
"  Rev.  Sir. 

"You  will  pleafe  to  attend,  during  your  milTion,  to  the  following 
inllrudions,  adopted  by  the  fociety  for  propagating  the  gofpcl 
among  the  Indians  and  others  in  North  America,  and  given  to  all 
their  mifllonaries. 

"  Firfl.  You  will  improve  every  opportunity  of  giving  private  and 
public  religious  inflrudions  to  the  objeds  of  your  mifTion.  You 
will  not  fuffcr  a  day  to  pafs,  during  the  continuance  of  it,  without 
attempts  of  this  kind. 

"  Secondly.  You  will  be  careful  to  fpend  as  little  time  as  poffible 
in  places  where  the  people  enjoy  the  ordinances  of  religion.  Thofe 
who  are  without  thefe  privileges,  the  poor  and  the  deflitute,  are  the 
objc(5ts  of  your  miffion. 

"  Thirdly.  You  will  not  accept  of  any  reward  from  thofe  to  whom 
you  miniller,  excepting  neceffary  fupport.  Let  the  gofpcl  be  preached 
freely. 

"  Fourthly.  You  will  not,  during  your  miflion,  attempt  the  pur- 
chafe  of  lands,  or  any  other  fecular  bufuiefs,  lelt  the  people  fliould 
fuppofe  that  you  are  governed  by  interefled  motives  in  coming 
among  them. 

"  Fifthly.  You  will  keep  a  daily  journal,  from  the  time  of  your 
leaving  home,  of  your  proceedings,  particularly  a  lift  of  the  baptifms 
which  you  may  adminillcr,  and  an  exa6l  account  of  the  manner  in 
which  you  diftribute  the  books  cntrufled  to  your  care.  The  fociety 
wifh  you  the  prefence  and  bleffing  of  Heaven  ;  and  in  their  name  I 
fubfcribe  myfelf  Your,  &c. 

E.  F.  Secretary.  C.  D.  Prefident. 

It  has  been  the  cullom  of  the  fociety  to  advance  one  half  of  their 
allowance  to  the  miffionaries  on  their  fetting  out,  but  not  to  pay  the 
other  till  they  have  exhibited  the  journal  required  by  the  above 
inllructions. 

Confcious  that  they  have  no  other  motive  than  a  wifli  to  do 
good,  the  fociety  fubmit  the  above  account  of  the  manner  in  which 
they  have  difcharged  their  trull,  to  the  General  Affembly  and  to 


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their  fellow  citizens.  They  may  have  erred  in  their  judgments,  but 
they  know  that  their  intentions  have  been  pure,  'i'hey  a(k  the  aid 
of  the  government,  and  of  the  pious  and  munificent,  to  enable  them 
to  profecute  the  obje6ls  of  their  inflitution  ;  and  rcqueft  the  prayers 
of  all  good  men,  that  the  blefling  of  Heaven  may  crown  their  en- 
deavours with  fuccefs.     By  order. 

Bq/lon,  January,  1798.  Peter  Thacher,  Sec'ry. 


[Page  7  contains  Lists  of  Officers  and  Members.  The  above 
copied,  and  proof  read  from  4°  in  the  Congregational  Library 
by  J.  F.  H.] 


A  BRIEF  HISTORY  OF  THE  SOCIETY  FOR 
PROPAGATING  THE  GOSPEL. 


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[In  an  Appendix  to  the  Discourse  by  the  Rev.  John  Lathrop,  D.D., 
January  19,  1804,  published  by  the  Society,  much  of  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Thacher's  "Sketch"  is  repeated,  and  the  following  passages  are 
added.] 

'"T^HE  Society  for  propagating  the  Gofpel  among  the  Indians 
A  and  others  in  North  America,  having  thought  it  expedient 
to  have  annually  a  fermon  delivered  before  them,  deem  it  proper,  that 
their  firft  anniverfary  difcourfe  fhould  be  accompanied  with  fome 
account  of  their  inflitution." 

[The  founding,  and  obtaining  $1561.  by  a  brief,  are  described  ac- 
cording to  Dr.  Thacher's  "  Sketch."]  "  A  private  fubfcription  among 
the  members  of  the  Society,  and  other  pious  and  benevolent  perfons, 
proved  more  produdive.  It  is  with  pleaiure  we  mention  as  among 
the  firft  and  moft  generous  contributors  to  the  funds  of  the  Society, 
the  names  of  the  Honorable  John  Alford,  James   Bowdoin,  Efq. 


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[$1156,67]  afterward  Governor  of  the  Commonwealth,  Moses  Gill, 
Efq.  [$333,34]  afterward  Lieutenant-Governor,  Willlvm  Hyslop,  Efq. 
[$2754,67]  the  Honorable  Samuel  Dexter,  Efq.  [$156,80]  the  Hon- 
orable Thomas  Russell,  Efq.  [$677,50]  the  Honorable  Jonathan 
Mason  [$345,35]  the  Honorable  William  Phillips  [$1000.]  Ebenezer 
Stoker,  Efq.  [$75.]  and  lately  the  Reverend  Eliakim  Wvllys  [$200.]. 
In  thefe  ways  the  funds  of  the  Society  have  increafed,  fo  that  in  May, 
1803,  they  amounted  to  Dolls.  23,417,  36  6ls  —  Yielding  an  annual 
income  of  1,145,83." 

"  This  income  is  exclufive  of  the  annual  grants  made  to  the  Society 
by  the  Legiflature,  no  part  of  which  has  been  added  to  the  principal, 
but  expended  as  income." 

"The  largefl  benefa6lor  to  the  Society  was  the  Honorable  John 
Alford,  Efq.  of  Charleflown."  [See  Gary's  "  Letter  "  and  Thacher's 
'*  Sketch."]  From  his  executor  was  received  "  the  lum  of  Dolls.  10,675 
18  6ls.     Yielding  at  prefent  an  annual  income  of  497  46." 

"  The  income  of  a  part  of  the  funds  of  the  Society  is  appropriated 
to  ameliorate  the  civil,  moral,  and  religious  condition  of  the  Indians." 
[Long  quotations  from  the  "  Sketch  "  follow.]  "  In  profecution  of 
thefe  falutary  purpofes,  the  Society,  fmce  the  year  1787,  have  pur- 
chafed  and  diftributed  (except  a  few  remaining  on  hand  for  the  fame 
purpofe)  607  Bibles,  1151  Teflaments,  1649  Spelling- Books,  801 
Pfalters,  2310  Primmers,  140  Watts's  Pfalms  and  Hymns,  768  of 
Doddridge's  Rife  and  Progrefs  of  Religion  in  the  foul,  and  9898  other 
books,  moftly  pamphlets,  but  many  large  and  valuable  treatifes,  making 
in  the  whole  (if  we  include  what  were  given  to  the  Indians)  17,324. 
Some  of  thefe  books  have  been  given  to  the  Society,  in  confequence 
of  their  publickly  requefling  the  aid  of  pious  and  charitable  perlons  in 
effe6ling  the  purpofes  of  their  incorporation." 

"The  other  part  of  the  unappropriated  income  of  the  Society, 
together  with  the  annual  grants  of  the  Legiflature,  have  been  expended 
in  fupporting  Miflionaries  in  thofe  parts  of  the  Diflri6l  of  Maine,  in- 
cluding the  Illes  of  Shoals,  whofe  inhabitants  have  not  the  ability  to 
procure  and  maintain  the  regular  ordinances  of  religion.  They  con- 
tribute one  hundred  do'Iars  a  year  to  the  falary  of  a  flated  InflrucSlor 
on  the  Ifles  of  Shoals,  and  annually  employ  two  or  three  Miflionaries 
for  feveral  months  in  the  fummer  and  autumn,  to  vifit  the  deftitute 


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parts  of  Maine,  to  preach  to  the  people,  to  adminifter  the  Chriflian 
ordinances,  to  catechife  their  children,  and  to  diftribute  among  them 
Bibles,  Teftaments,  religious  tra6ls  and  fchool-books.  From  the 
journals  of  the  Miffionaries,  and  the  corroborating  teftimony  of  indi- 
viduals living  in  that  part  of  the  Commonwealth,  the  effedts  of  thefe 
efforts  to  promote  the  bell  happinefs  of  thefe  deftitute  people,  have 
been  fuch  as  to  anfwer  every  reafonable  expe6lation,  and  abundantly 
to  encourage  their  continuance  and  increafe." 

"  The  field  of  ufefulnefs  in  this  quarter  is  already  very  extenfive,  and 
enlarging  as  the  population  extends  into  the  wildernefs.  The  means 
of  the  Society  fall  far  fliort  of  the  demands  of  thefe  hardy,  enterprizing, 
and  deferving  fellow-citizens  and  fellow  immortals." 

"  The  Society  have  it  in  contemplation,  fliould  their  funds  admit,  to 
aid  in  the  eftablifhment  and  fupport  of  fchools,  in  thofe  towns  where 
there  are  but  few  inhabitants,  and  thofe  few  not  in  circumftances  to 
fupport  a  teacher.  It  will  be  their  aim  to  feleft  as  inftru6tors  of  fuch 
fchools,  men  of  piety,  experience,  and  other  requifite  qualifications,  to 
lead  in  religious  fervices  on  the  Lord's  day ;  that  fo  parents  and  chil- 
dren may  derive  benefit  from  their  labours.  One  of  the  Society's 
Miffionaries  is  fpending  the  prefent  winter,  in  this  manner,  by  way  of 
experiment.  The  plan  of  inftituting  fuch  fchools  has  been  propofed 
to  the  inhabitants  of  fome  of  the  towns,  and  embraced  by  them  with 
eagernefs  and  gratitude." 

"  In  thefe  ways  the  Society  have  expanded,  and  propofe  in  future, 
to  employ  their  funds."  [The  latter  part  of  Dr.  Thacher's  "  Sketch," 
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To  the  Members  of  the  Society  for  propagating  the 
GOSPEL  among  the  Indians,  and  others,  in  North- 
America. 

Incorporated  by  an  Act  of  this  Commonwealth. 


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GENTLEMEN, 

IT  gives  me  a  particular  fatisfaflion,  in  having  it  in  my  power  to 
afford  fome  afliftance  in  carrying  this  excellent  defign  into  execu- 
tion, from  the  eftate  of  the  late  Hon.  John  Alford,  Efquire,  deceafed 
—  who,  in  his  life-time,  had  this  matter  much  at  heart  —  as  one  of 
his  [2]  executors,  by  putting  into  your  hands  a  confiderable  intereft, 
part  of  the  charity  appropriated  out  of  his  eftate  to  publick  and  private 
ufes. 

Col.  Alford,  when  living,  was  often  fpeaking  and  writing  in  favour 
of  fuch  a  plan;  he  was  defirous  the  Aboriginals  Ihould  be  both 
civilized  and  chriftianized ;  that  the  Gofpel  (hould  be  fent  into  the 
dark,  benighted  parts  of  the  land,  and  was  always  ready  to  contribute 
to  this  benevolent  defign,  that  fuch  as  fet  in  darknefs  may  come  to 
the  knowledge  of  the  truth. 

His  abilities,  his  publick  and  private  charafter,  as  a  Chriftian  and 
as  a  citizen,  gained  him  the  honour,  efteem,  and  confidence  of  his 
country. 

The  intereft  lodged  in  my  hands,  out  of  his  eftate,  made  me 
defirous  fome  attempt  ftiould  be  made;  accordingly  in  July,  1786, 
I  requefted  the  Rev.  Mr.  Daniel  Little,  of  Wells,  a  worthy  minifter, 


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and  highly  recommended,  to  go  to  the  Indian  tribe  at  Penobfcot  river, 
to  inftru(5t  the  faid  Indians  in  the  knowledge  of  the  Chriftian  Religion, 
and  their  children  in  ufeful  human  literature.  Having  the  countenance 
of  his  Excellency  Governour  Bowdoin,  I  wrote  them,  and  the  in- 
habitants, as  follows. 

"Brethren, 

*'  The  Rev.  Mr.  Little  comes  as  a  Miflionary  among  you,  to  pro- 
mote your  befl  good,  by  inftruding  you,  and  [3]  your  children. 
The  difficulties  he  may  go  through,  the  chearfulnefs  with  which  he 
engages  in  this  work,  for  your  welfare,  I  wifh  may  encourage  you  to 
receive  him  as  your  kind  father  and  friend." 

To  my  CHRISTIAN   FRIENDS,  and  ENGLISH  INHABI- 
TANTS, at  Penobscot. 

"  I  defire  you  will  be  fo  kind  as  to  affifl  the  Rev.  Mr.  Little  in 
obtaining  a  knowledge  of  the  general  ftate  of  the  Indians ;  he  is  a 
perfon  much  efteemed  among  us,  and  chearfully  undertakes  this 
fervice  to  promote  your  welfare.  When  his  time  cannot  be  employed 
to  the  benefit  of  the  Indians,  he  may  be  employed  as  a  Miffionary 
among  you  with  acceptance  and  advantage.  I  hope  his  coming  will 
be  attended  with  a  divine  bleffing. 

I  am,  affedlionately, 

Your  friend  and  fervant, 

RICHARD    GARY." 

Medford,  July  i,  1786. 

Mr.  Little  advifed  me  of  his  arrival  at  Penobfcot- Bay,  Aug.  7,  by  a 
letter,  of  which  the  following  is  extracted  —  at  the  fame  time  mentions 
the  arrival  of  the  Roman  Catholick  Miffionary  from  New-York. 

[4]  "  Immediately  after  the  Commiffioners  had  quieted  the  Indians 
about  their  landed  claims,  I  moved  up  to  a  fmall  village  of  feven 
families,  near  the  borders  of  Indian  Old-Town,  where  I  opened  an 
Englifh  fchool,  to  which  I  invited  the  prefence  and  attention  of  the 
Indians,  as  they  were  paffmg  up  the  river  from  the  treaty;  having, 
upon  my  firfl  arrival  in  the  riyer,  communicated  to  their  chief  Sachem 


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the  benevolent  defign  of  my  miflion.  The  arrival  of  the  French 
Pried  at  this  jun6lure,  and  his  officiating  in  his  way  among  the 
Indians,  prevented  my  accefs  to  them  on  religious  fubjedts,  as  a 
publick  teacher.  I  then  invited  him  to  my  lodgings,  and  reafoned 
with  him  upon  the  advantages  of  a  free  Englifli  fchool,  for  the  benefit 
of  the  Indians,  abfl;ra6led  from  religious  confiderations,  in  hopes  to 
avail  myfelf  of  his  influence.  In  about  a  fortnight  after,  he  col- 
le(5led  the  Indians  together  near  the  uppermoft  branches  of  the 
river ;  they  difperfed  foon  after  the  treaty,  to  attend  their  wares 
and  traps,  and  reported  to  me  the  refult  of  their  council,  viz.  That  a 
fmall  part  of  them  were  defirous  to  have  their  children  taught  the 
language  and  manners  of  the  Englifli,  but  all  of  them  were  apprehen- 
five  that  their  religion  would  be  in  danger ;  wiflied  to  know  why  their 
ciiildren  could  not  be  taught  to  read  and  write  by  a  mader  of  their  own 
religious  perfuafion. 

"  After  finding  the  firfl;  obje6l  of  my  mifhon  clouded  by  unforefeen 
occurrences  and  events,  I  fpent  the  reft  of  [5]  my  time  among  the 
inhabitants  down  the  river  and  bay  of  Penobfcot,  where  my  fervices 
were  acceptable  and  I  hope  ufeful." 

Mr.  Little  was  on  his  miffion  about  three  months,  and  I  believe  did 
everything  in  his  power  to  anfwer  the  good  purpofes  he  went  upon. 
He  fent  me  a  plan  of  Penobfcot  river,  with  the  Indian  boundaries. 


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Settled  Augujl  28,  1786. 

The  monies  delivered  into  the  hands  of  your  Treafurer,  with  a 
fchedule  annexed,  are  eleven  fpecie  bonds,  amounting  to  eleven 
hundred  and  fifty-two  pounds,  lawful  money ;  three  continental  cer- 
tificates for  2300  dollars,  dated  Odober,  1777;  two  continental 
certificates,  dated  February,  1779,  for  800  dollars;  one  continental 
certificate,  dated  February,  1779,  for  300  dollars;  fix  confolidated 
notes  of  this  ftate,  for  ^.418-15-0  lawful  money ;  a  number  of  other 
certificates  of  a  later  date,  efl.iniated  at  a  lefs  value  ;  J.  Hardy's  certifi- 
cates for  920  dollars.  Several  years  intereft  is  due  on  fome  of  the 
certificates,  notes,  and  the  bonds,  which  I   have  fettled  in  the  beft 


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manner  in  my  power,  confidering  the  fituation  of  publick  affairs,  and 
tlie  changing  fcenes  we  have  paffed  through. 

Another  donation  given,  which  the  executors  thought  of  public 
utihty,  was  fifty  pounds  fterhng  towards  raifing  [6]  a  fund  for  the  fup- 
port  of  poor  diffenting  minifters  widows  and  children,  after  their 
deceafe,  who  are  at  times  reduced  to  difficult  circumftances. 

Three  hundred  and  forty  pounds,  lawful  money,  has  been  beftowed 
in  private  charities  to  unfortunate  perfons,  known  to  be  fuch,  and 
recommended  by  very  refpe6\able  charaders. 

The  inftitution  of  a  new  profeffordiip,  at  Harvard  College,  of 
Natural  Religion,  Moral  Philofophy,  and  Civil  Polity,  called  by  the 
name  of  Alford's  Professor,  will,  I  doubt  not,  prove  very  beneficial 
to  the  publick  ;  fums  of  money  for  the  fupport  of  it,  have  been  lodged, 
at  different  times,  in  the  hands  of  their  Treafurers,  and  by  a  late  fettle- 
ment  with  Mr.  Treafurer  Storer,  amounts,  in  fpecie,  to  ;^.  155 2-4-2 
lawful  money.  The  intereft  arifing  is  ^.93  per  annum,  which  will 
foon  be  fufificient  to  anfwer  the  benevolent  defign.  Under  our  ex- 
cellent Conftitution  and  national  form  of  government,  no  wife  man  will 
be  wanting  in  ufing  his  befl  endeavours  for  its  fupport. 

Ledures  on  publick  virtue,  by  the  Profeffor,  to  thofe  under  his  care, 
inculcating  the  great  advantage,  as  well  as  neceflity  of  good  laws,  and 
having  them  duly  executed,  for  the  fupport  of  government  and  order, 
cannot  but  prove  beneficial  to  the  rifing  generation,  and  better  qualify 
them  for  publick  fervice. 

[7]  A  confiderable  interefl,  from  this  eflate,  has  been  fent,  at  different 
times,  to  the  Treafurers  of  the  College  in  New-Jerfey  (equal  to  what 
was  given  to  the  College  in  this  vicinity)  to  be  applied  in  a  way  the 
Governours  and  Direflors  of  Naffau-Hall  fliould  think  would  be  mofl 
ferviceable  to  that  fociety. 

The  worthy  Founder  of  thefe  charities,  by  his  laft  will,  appears  to 
have  been  influenced  by  the  noblefl  principles  of  a6lion,  that  of  pro- 
moting the  glory  of  his  Almighty  Creator,  the  fpiritual  and  temporal 
welfare  of  his  fellow-creatures.  His  mind  was  known  many  years 
before  his  death,  that  he  intended  to  leave  a  confiderable  part  of  his 
eftate  to  pious  and  charitable  ufes.  Having  honoured  me  with  his 
power    .  ad,  1  have  often  heard  him  fpeak  with  concern  of  the  (late 


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of  the  Indians,  how  gentlemen  in  England  were  at  great  expence  in 
having  the  Gofpel  propagated  among  them,  while  we,  in  this  country, 
were  inattentive  to  this  important  concern. 

With  pleafure  I  deliver  up  this  interefl  to  your  management  and 
dire6tion,  being  convinced,  from  your  wifdom  and  judgment,  nothing 
will  be  wanting,  on  your  part,  to  carry  this  benevolent  i)lan  into  exe- 
cution.    My  advanced  age  and  infirmities  make  it  necelTary. 

Great  difficulties  have  attended  fettling  this  eflate ;  the  company's 
affairs  were  unfettled,  and  their  books  in  great  diforder.  The  agents, 
that  had  the  care  of  the  eflate  in  [8]  the  Jerfeys,  were  remifs  in  their 
fettlements ;  feveral  valuable  trads  of  land  remained  unfold.  Other 
concerns  called  me  twice  to  New-Jerfey  and  Philadelphia ;  once  in 
the  winter  feafon  ;  my  going  was  thought  to  be  advantageous  for  the 
concern.  I  wifli  my  abilities  had  been  equal  to  the  important  truft 
repofed  in  me. 

The  publick  being  fo  much  interefted  in  the  difpofal  of  Col.  Alford's 
eflate,  is  an  apology  for  my  being  fo  particular.  Accounts  of  money 
received  and  paid  away,  with  other  matters  relating  to  it,  have  been 
lodged  in  the  Probate  Office  in  Cambridge,  to  which  I  beg  leave  to 
refer  any  one  who  defires  information,  or  an  application  to  me  will  fave 
that  trouble. 

I  thank  you,  Gentlemen,  for  the  honour  done  me  in  voting  me  into 
your  refpe6lable  fociety.  Be  affured,  I  Ihall  cheerfully  give  every 
affiflance  in  ray  power  to  promote  the  interefl  of  this  benevolent 
undertaking,  and  am,  with  refpedful  regards, 

GENTLEMEN, 

Your  obliged  humble  fervant, 

Richard  Gary. 


To  the  Honourable  OLIVER  WENDELL,  Efquire, 
and  the  Members  of  the  Society  for  propagating  the 
Gofpel  among  the  Indians  in  the  United  States  of 
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AT  a  meeting  of  the  Society  for  propagating  the  Gospel  among  the 
Indians,  and  others,  in  North- America,  May  28,  1789. 

VOTED,  That  the  Affiftant  Secretary,  the  Rev.  Mr.  Eliot,  and  the 
Rev.  Mr.  Hilvard,  be  a  committee  to  wait  upon  Richard 
Gary,  Efq.  and,  in  the  name  of  this  Society,  to  exprefs  their  very  great 
fatisfaaion  in  the  idea,  that  the  benevolent  and  truly  Chriftian  defigns 
of  the  late  Colonel  Alford  have  been  fo  faithfully  feconded  by  his 
Executor ;  to  return  him  the  fmcere  thanks  of  the  Society  for  his  very 
liberal  donation  this  day  made  to  them,  to  enable  them  to  effed  the 
benevolent  purpofes  of  their  inflitution  ;  to  affure  him,  that  it  fliall  be 
faithfully  applied  to  the  purpofes  for  which  it  is  given,  and  to  exprefs 
the  wiflies  and  prayers  of  the  Society,  that  the  blefling  of  thofe  who 
are  ready  to  perifli  may  come  upon  him. 

A  true  extras  from  the  Minutes. 
Attefl. 

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OFFICERS   OF    THE   SOCIETY. 


1 787-1 887. 


n. 


|3rc0tlientg. 

Honorable  Oliver  Wendell 1787-93 

"         Thomas  Russell 1793-96 

"         Moses  Gill 1796-1800 

His  Excellency  James  Sullivan 1800-6 

Honorable  William  Phillips 1806-27 

"         Jonathan  Phillips 1827-37 

"  Chief  Justice,  Lemuel  Shaw  .     .     ,  1837-61 

«  "  "     George  T.  BiGELow  .  1861-77 

Reverend  S.  K.  Lothrop,  D.D 1878-85 

"       RuFus  Ellis,  D.D 1885-86 

Honorable  E.  R.  Hoar 1886-87 

Reverend  A.  P.  Peabody,  D.D 1887 

Secretaries. 

Reverend  Edward  Wigglesworth,  D.D.     .     .  1787-90 

"        Peter  Thacher,  D.D 1790-1802 

"       Jedediah  Morse,  D.D 1802-10 

"        Abiel  Holmes,  D.D 1810-29 

"        Alden  Bradford,  LL.D 1829-43 

"        Francis  Parkman,  D.D 1843-52 

«       S.  K.  Lothrop,  D.D 1852-76 

«        RuFus  Ellis,  D.D 1877-84 

"        Alexander  McKenzie,  D.D.  .     .     .  1885- 

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Exeamxtxa. 

Honorable  Jonathan  Mason 1787-90 

EnENEZER  Storer,  Esq 1 790-1806 

Samuel  H.  Walf.ey,  Esq 1806-28 

Honorable  Asahel  Stearns 1828-38 

'*         James  Savage,  LL.D 1838-41 

George  Bond,  Esq 1841-42 

Honorable  Peter  O.  Thacher 1842-43 

"  James  Savage,  LL.D 1843-50 

«  Stephen  Fairbanks 1850-63 

Thornton  K.  Lothrop,  Esq 1863-83 

Honorable  Samuel  C.  Cobb 1884 


MEMBERS   OF   THE   SOCIETY. 

1787-1887. 

17S7.     Named  in  the  Act  of  Incorporation  (printed  on  pp.  5  and  13). 
1788.     Elected. 


Hon.  James  Bowdoin,  LL.D., 

"     Thomas  Russell, 
Rev.  Jeremy  Belknap. 
Thomas  Lee,  Esq.,  Cambridge. 
Hon.  Thomas  Dexter,  Dedham. 


Hon.  William  Phillips,  \ 
"    Thomas  Dawes,  >•  Boston. 

Richard  Gary,  Esq.,  Charlestown, 
Hon.  Cotton  Tufts,  M.D.,  Weymouth. 


1792. 

Hon.  James  Sullivan,  LL.D., 

"     William  Phillips, 
Rev.  Simeon  Howard,  D.D., 


Nathan  Appleton,  Esq.,     y 
Rev.  Samuel  West,  D.D.  >  Boston. 
<'    John  Lathrop,  D.D.,) 
'    Jedediah  Morse,  D.D. ,  Charles-      "    Daniel  Little,  Wells,  Me. 

town.  Hon.  John  Lowell,  LL.D.,  Roxbury. 

Mr.  WiUiam  Woodbridge,  Medford.  David  S.  Greenough,  " 

1794. 

Hon.  Benjamin  Lincoln,  Hingham.   Rev.  Abiel Holmes,  D.D.,  Cambridge. 

Alden  Bradford,  LL.D.,  Boston. 

1798. 

James  White,  Esq.,  Boston.  Dea.  Samuel  Salisbury,  Boston. 


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i8oo. 

David  Hyslop,  Esq.,  IJrooklinc.         Rev.  Elijah  Parish,  D.D.,  Newbury. 

Hon.  Dudley  A.  Tyng,LL.D.,  Boston. 

1803. 

Rev.  David   Tappan,   D.D.,   Cam-  Eliphalet     Pearson,    LL.D.,     Cam- 
bridge, bridge. 

1804. 

Rev.  Thomas  Barnard,   D.D.,  Sa-  Rev.  Joseph  McKeen,  D.D.,  Bruns- 
lem.  wick,  Me. 

"    William  E.  Channing,  D.D.,      Samuel  Parkman,  Esq.,     ) 

Samuel  Eliot,  Esq.,  Hon.  John  Davis,  LL.D.,  >•  Boston. 

Daniel  D.  Rogers,  Esq.,  ) 

1805. 

Benjamin  Bussey,  Esq.,  Roxbury.      Hon.  John  Treadwell,  Salem. 

Samuel  H.  Walley,  Esq.,      "  Rev.  James    Kendall,  D.D.,  Plym- 

Rev.  Joshua  Bates,  D.D.,  Dedham.       outh. 

Edward  A.  Holyoke,  M.D.,  LL.D.,   Hon.  Thomas  Dawes,  Jr.,  Boston. 
Salem.  "     Jonathan  Phillips,  *' 

1808. 

Josiah  Salisbury,  Esq.,  Boston. 

1811. 

Rev.  J.  T.  Kirkland,  D.D.,  LL.D.,    Rev.  Henry  Ware,  D.D.  Cambridge. 

Cambridge.  "    William  Greenough,  Newton. 

"    Thomas  Prentiss,  D.D.,  Med-      "    John  Pierce,  D.D.,  Brookline. 

field. 

1814. 

Edward  Tuckerman,  Jr.,  Esq., 

Rev.  Charles  Lowell,  D.D., 

"    Samuel  Gile,  Milton. 
Caleb  Gannett,  Esq.,  Cambridge. 
Levi  Hedge,  LL.D.,  " 

1818. 

Rev.  Francis  Parkman,  D.D., 

"    Joseph  Tuckerman,  D.D., 
Hon.  Asahel  Stearns,  LL.D.,  Cam-  Rev.  Ebenezer  Porter,   D.D.,  An- 


Elisha  Ticknor,  Esq.,  I  j^^^^^^^ 
Rev.  Joshua  Huntingtont  i 

"    John  Foster,  D.D.,  Brighton. 

"  Joseph  M'Kean,  LL.D.,  Cam- 
bridge. 


Hon.  John  Phillips,  I  ^  .,^^^ 
"    Pliny  Cutler,    ^ 


bridge. 


dover. 


1822. 

Rev.  Thaddeus  M.  Harris,  D.D.,  Rev.   John   Codman,    D.D.,    Dor- 
Dorchester,  chaster. 
Hon.  Judge  Parker,  LL.D.,                Hon.  Dan'l  Wcbster,LL.D.,  |  j^^^^^^ 
Edward  Phillips,  Esq.,  ) 
Hon.  William  Reed,  Marblehead. 


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1825. 

Hon 


on.  Richard  Sullivan,  John  C.  Warren,  M.D.,    )  Boston. 

-     Samuel  Hubbard,  LL.D.,  Rev.  15. 15.  Wisner,  D.D.,  ^ 

James    R.    Chaplin,    M.D.,   Cam-       "   Henrv  Ware,  Jr.,  D.D.,  Cam- 


Thomas  W.  Ward,  Esq.,  |  jjogton. 


bridge. 

1832. 

Hon.  Peter  O.  Thacher, 
Rev.  William  Jenks,  D.D., 
Hon.  Josiah  Quincy,  LL.D.,  Cam-  Rev.  James  Walker,  D.D.,  Charles- 
bridge,  town. 
William  Hilliard,  Esq.,  Cambridge. 

Hon.  James  Savage,  LL.D.,  Boston.  Hon.  Judge  Story,  LL.D   Cambndge. 
George  Bond,  Esq.,  »        Kev.  John  G.  Palfrey,  D.D.,  LL.D., 

Rev.  George  Putnam,D.D.,Roxbury.    Cambridge. 

1 834. 

Hon.  Judge  Shaw,  LL.D.,  Rev.  Ezra  S.  Gannett,  D.D.,  j  Boston. 

Rev.  Convers  Francis,  D.D., 

Hon."  Charles  Jackson,  LL.D.,Boston.Rev.  H.  A.  Miles,  D.D.,  Lowell. 
Rev.  Charles  Briggs,  " 

Rev.Joseph  Field,  D.D.,  Weston.     Rev.  George  Ripley.  Boston. 
•'    Alexander  Young,  D.D.,  Bos-  Hon.   Leverett  Saltonstall,  LL.D., 

C2  i^  1  Atvt 


ton. 


Salem. 


Hon.  Daniel  A.  White,  LL.D.,  Salem  ;  Hon.  Samuel  A.  Eliot,  Boston. 

Hon".  Samuel  Hoar,  LL.D.,  Concord.  Rev.  Ephraim  Peabody,  D.D.,  Bos- 
Rev.  Samuel  Barrett,  D.D.,  Boston.      ton. 

Ret"!' A.  P.  Peabody,  D.D.,  Cam-    Rev.   G.   W.  Briggs,  D.D.,    Plym- 
bridge.  outh. 

1841. 

Benjamin  Guild,  Esq.,  Boston. 

Rev."samuel  K.  Lothrop,  D.D.,  and  Hon.  Charles  G.  Loring,  Boston. 

May,  1844.  1    T-,  T^    » 

Hon.  Abbott  Lawrence,  LL.D.,  Rev.  C.  A.  Bartol,  D.D.,  f  go^ton. 

Rev.  Chandler  Robbins,  D.D., 
»     James  W.  Thompson,  D.D.,  Jamaica  Plain. 


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November,  1844. 

Kev.Geo.  E.Ellis,  D.D.,  Charlcstown  ;  Hon.  Stephen  C.  Phillips,  SrJem. 

May,  1S46. 

George  B.  Emerson,  Esq.,  Boston.   Rev.  C.  W.  Upham,  Salem. 

November,  1S46. 

Rev.  Edward  B.  Hall,  D.D.,  Provi-  Rev.   Alonzo    Hill,    D.D.,  Worces- 

dence.  ter. 

May,  1847. 
Hon.  Stephen  Fairbanks,  Boston.     Rev.  Alvan  Lamson,  D.D.,  Dedham. 

November,  1847, 

Hon.  PelegSprague,  LL.D.,  Boston.  Rev.  George  R.  Noyes,  D.D.,  Cam- 
Rev.  F.  D.  Huntington,  D.D.,    "         bridge. 

June  I,  1S48. 

Rev.  Christopher  Thayer,  Boston. 

Nov.  2,  184S. 

Rev.  William  I.  Buddington,  Charles.  Edward    Wigglesworth,   Esq.,  Bos- 
town,  ton. 

May  30,  1850. 

Hon.  George  S.  Hillard,  Samuel  Greele,  Esq.,  \  i>    ._ 

"     Albert  Fearing,  > 

Rev.  William  P.  Lunt,  D.D.,  Quincy. 

May  29,  185 1. 

Daniel  Denny,  Esq.,  Boston.  Robert  Waterston,  Esq.,  Boston. 

Nov.  6,  185 1. 

Rev.  Calvin  Lincoln,  Hingham.  Nathaniel  H.  Emmons,  Esq.,  Boston. 

Nov.  4,  1852. 

Hon.  Thomas  Kinnicutt,  Worcester    Hon.  Benjamin  Seaver,  Boston. 

Rev.  William  Barry,  Lowell.  William  T.  Andrews,  Esq  ,  " 

May  31,  1855. 

Henry  B.  Rogers,  Esq.,  Boston.        Rev.  John  H.  Morison,  D.D.,  Mil- 
Rev.  J.  L  T.  Coolidge,        "  ton. 

'    Nov.  I,  1855. 

Rev.  Rufus  Ellis,  Boston. 

May  29,  1856. 

J.   Huntington  Wolcott,  Esq.,  Bos-  N.  Thayer,  Esq.,  Boston. 

ton.  Prof.  Edwards  A.  Park,  Andover. 

May  27,  1858. 

Hon,  E.  Rockwood  Hoar,  Concord.  Rev.  Dexter  Clapp,  Salem. 
Rev.  George  N.  Blagden,  D.D.,        B.  A.  Gould,  Esq.,  )  j^^ 
Hon.  William  Minot,  ) 


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Nov.  4,  1858. 

Hon.    Emory    Washburn,    LL.D.,  Rev.  E.  E.  Hale,  Loston. 
Cambridge. 

May  26,  1859. 

Hon.  r.eorge  T.  Bigelow,  LL.D.,       Samuel  E.  Guild,  Esq.,  |  Boston. 

Rev.  R.  H.^Neale,  D.D.,  •> 

May  31,  1S60. 

Hon.  B.  F.  Thomas,  LL.D.,  William  Perkins,  Esq.,  |  Boston. 

T.  K.  Lothrop,  Esq.,  ^ 

Hon.  Lorenzo  Sabine,  Framingham. 

Nov.  6,  1862. 

Hon.  Jacob  H.  Loud,  Plymouth.         Rev. William  Newell,  Cambridge. 
«     Stephen Salesbury,  Worcester.       "    William  O.  Mosely,  Boston. 

May  28,    863. 

Thomas  Aspinwall,  Esq.,  Boston.      Hon.  Charles  Allen,  Worcester. 

RLay  26,  1864. 

Rev.  James  H.  Means,  Dorchester. 

Nov.  2,  1865. 

Rev.  Oliver  Stearns,  D.D.,  Cambridge. 

Nov.  7,  1867. 

Rev.  James  De  Normandie,  Portsmouth,  N.H. 

Mav  27,  1869. 

Hon.  Jacob  S.  Sleeper,  Boston.         Rev.  E.  H.  Sears,  Weston. 

Rev.  H.  W.  Foote, 

[The  names,  titles,  and  residences  already  given  are  reprinted 
(with  errors)  from  the  J?c:/>or^  of  the  Select  Committee,  Afay  30,  1869, 
pp.  69-74.  The  following  are  from  the  J^crords,  where  residences, 
and  nearly  all  tUles  except  "  Rev/'  are  omitted.  —  J.  F.  H.] 


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Nov.  2,  1871. 
George  B.  Chase. 

May  28,  1874. 
George  S.  Hale. 
George  O.  Shattuck. 
O.  W.  Peabody. 

May  27,  18S0. 
Roger  Wolcott. 
James  P.  Melledg^. 


Rev.  Alexander  McKenzie. 

Rev.  George  L.  Chaney. 
"    John  D.  Wells. 


Rev.  Henry  F.  Jenks. 
"    Edward  C.  Guild. 


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Nov.  4,  1880. 
'/ames  F.  Hunnewell. 
James  L.  Little,  Jr. 
Henry  Parkman. 

June  r,  1882. 
Samuel  Johnson. 
G.  Washington  Warren. 
Arthur  T.  Lyman. 

May  31,  1883. 
S.  C.  Armstrong. 
J.  F.  B.  Marshall. 

Nov.  5,  1885. 
Arthur  Lincoln. 

May  27,  1886. 

Charles  Theodore  Russell. 

P.  Emory  Aldrich. 

Rev.  Phillips  Brooks. 

Edward  L.  Fierce. 

May  26,  1887. 

Rev.  Grindall  Reynolds. 

Caleb  H.  Warner. 

Hamilton  A.  Hill. 


Rev.  Pitt  Dillingham. 
"     J.  G.  Brooks. 
"    J.  M.  Manning,  D.D. 

Rev.  J.  T.  Duryea,  D.D. 
'•  F.  B.  Hornbrookc. 
"    Charles  F.  Dole. 

Samuel  C.  Cobb. 
Rev.  Brooke  Herford. 


Rev.  F.  G.  Peabody. 
Charles  W.  Eliot. 
Amos  A.  Lawrence. 
WiUiam  Endicott,  Jr. 

J.  Randolph  Coolidge,  Jr. 
Henry  H.  Edes. 


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III 


MISSIONARIES   OF   THE   SOCIETY, 


1790-1855. 

From  the  Report  published  by  the  Society  in  1856, 

"  Some  of  the  missionaries  in  the  following  list  were  employed 
only  for  a  portion  of  the  year,  from  two  to  six  months,  and  were 
paid  fifty  dollars  a  month.  This  was  the  case  with  most  of  the 
missionaries  employed  in  various  parts  of  the  District  of  Maine 
previous  to  1820.  '  Others  were  engaged  in  missionary  service 
the  whole  year,  but  were  only  in  part  supported  by  the  funds  of 
this  Society.  Some  were  employed  only  one  year;  others  were 
annually  re-appointed  for  a  series  of  years  \  and  with  some  of  these 


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there  appears  to  have  been  an  occasional  intermission,  when  for 
several  years  they  were  not  appointed.  It  was  found  that  a  table 
containing  these  minute  facts  would  be  somewhat  complicated. 
The  following  list  merely  gives  the  names  of  the  persons  who  have 
at  any  time  been  employed  by  the  Society  as  missionaries,  or  se/iool 
teachers,  or  agents,  with  \\it  field  of  their  labor,  and  the  date  of  their 
first  appointment. 


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1790.  Rev.  Zechariah  Mayhew,  Martha's  Vineyard  ;   Rev.  John  Sar- 

geant,  Stockbridge,  N.Y.  ;  Rev.  Gideon  Hawley,  Marshpee. 

1 791.  Rev.   Daniel  Little,   Rev.  James    Lyon,  and   Mr.  Abiel  Abbot, 

Maine. 

1792.  Rev.  Samuel  Maclintock,  Rev.  Peter  Holt,  and  Rev.  Levi  Frisbie, 

Maine  ;  Rev.  Samuel  Kirkland,  and  Mr.  Calkins,  Oneida,  IJ.Y. 

1793.  Rev.  John  Th&mpson,  and  Rev.  Eli  Forbes,  Maine. 

1794.  Rev.  Samucl  Ei^ton,  and  Rev.  Joseph  Thaxter,  Maine. 

1795.  Rev.  Aklen  Bradford,  and  Mr.  Elisha  Sylvester,  Maine. 

1796.  Rev.  Alfred  Johnson,  Rev.  John  Strickland,  Rev.  Paul  Coffin,  and 

Rev.  Mr.  Bradford,  Maine. 

1798.  Rev.  Alexander  Maclaia,  Maine. 

1799.  Rev  Samuel  Read,  Maine  ;  Rev.  Jacob  Emerson,  Isle  of  Shoals. 

1800.  Esther  Tac     at,  Vineyard. 

1802,  Rev.  Seth  Payson,  Maine  ;  Rev.  Mr.  Stevens,  Isle  of  Shoals  ; 

Mr.  Nathaniel  Ely,  Longmeadow. 

1803.  Rev.  Benjamin  Chadwick,  and  Rev.  Edmund  Eastman,  Maine. 
1S04.     Rev.  Peter  Nourse,  Maine  ;  Rev.  Daniel  Oliver,  Maine  and  Mas- 
sachusetts. 

1805.     Rev,  Asa  Piper,  Rev.  Mr.  Jewett,  and  Rev.  Elisha  Parish,  Maine. 
1S06.     Rev.  Daniel  Lovejoy,  ls!e  of  Shoals  ;    Rev.    Mr.  Packard,  and 
Rev.  Mr.  Hidden,  Maine. 

1807.  Rev.  Johr   Scott,  Rev.  John  Allyne,   Rev.  Jonathan  Burr,  Rev. 

?T  ishfield  Steele,  and  Rev.  Jonathan  Powers,  Maine;  Rev. 
Enoch  Whipple,  Isle  of  Shoals. 

1808.  Rev.  Asa  Lyman,  Rev.  Daniel  Emerson,  Rev.  Timothy  Davis, 

Rev.  Nathaniel  Webster,  Rev.  Heztkiah  May,  and  Rev.  Thad- 
deus  Osgood,  Maine ;  Rev.  Elisha  Clapp,  Marshpee  ;  Rev. 
Curtiss  Coe,  Rhode  Island. 

1809.  Rev.  David  Williston,  Rev.  Perez  Chapin,  Mr.  A,  Phelps,  Rev. 

Daniel  Grovenor,  Rev.  Philander  Sha\v,£nd  Rev.  David  Smith, 
Maiae  ;  Rev.  Samuel  Sargeant,  Vermont. 


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iSio. 

iSii. 
1812. 
1813. 

1814. 

1815. 

1816. 
1817- 

1818. 

1819. 

1820. 
1821. 

1822. 

1823. 

1825. 
1826. 
1S27. 
1829. 

1830. 
1831. 
1834. 
1835- 
1837- 
1839. 
f840. 
i042. 
1843 


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1845 


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Rev.   Samuel  Sewall,    Rev.  Nathaniel  Porter,  and  Rev.   Moses 

Elioi,  ^-laine  ;  Rev.  John  Tenny,  Rhode  Island. 
Rev.  Ephraim  Abbot,  and  Rev.  Silas  Warren,  Maine. 
Rev.  Robert  Cochran,  Maine ;  Rev.  Phineas  Fish,  Marshpee. 
Rev.  Jeremiah  Niles,  Rhode  Island  ;  Rev.  Joseph  Badger,  Cape 

Cod. 
Messrs.  Schemeshorn  and  MMls,  Western  Indians;   Rev.  John 

Button,  Maine. 
Rev.  John  Sawyer,  Rev.  David  M.  Mitchel,  and  Rev.  Stetson 

Raymond,  Maine. 
Rev.  William  Miltemore,  and  Rev.  Henry  True,  Maine. 
Rev.  Nathan  Douglas,  Rev.  Freeman  Parker,  and  Rev.  Jonathan 

Fisher,  Maine  ;  Rev.  Timothy  Alden,  Western  Indians. 
Rev.   Thomas   Adams,  Rev.  Jonathan  Calif,  and   Rev.    Mighill 

Blood,  Maine;  M  •.  Frederic  Baylies,  Vineyard. 
Rev.  Elijah  Kellogg,  Maine. 
Rev.  Jonathan  Bigelow,  Maine. 
Rev.  Mr.  Noyes,  for  education,  at  Needham,  of  Indian  women  of 

St.  Francis  tribe,  Canada. 
Rev.  Joseph  Lake,  Nantucket  Indians. 
Rev.  Carlton  Hurd,  Rev.  James  Weston,  and  Rev.  Caleb  F.  Page, 

Maine. 
Rev.  John  Sargeant,  2d,  Stockbridge,  N.Y. 
Rev.  Josiah  Peet,  Maine. 
Rev.  George  W.  Fargo,  Maine. 
Rev.  T.  F.  Rogers,  Vermont  ;  Rev.  Samuel  Brimblecome,  Rev. 

Sylvester  Clapp,  and  Rev.  William  Farmer,  Maine. 
Rev.  W.  W.  Niles,  Maine. 
Rev.  Jonathan  Huse,  Maine. 
Rev.  Henry  A.  Miles,  Maine. 
Rev.  G.  W.  Wills,  Maine. 
Rev.  O.  Smith,  Isle  of  Shoals. 
Rev.  Alpheus  Harding,  Western  States. 
Rev.  Mr.  Huntoon,  and  Rev.  Mr.  Perkins,  Ohio. 
Rev.  A.  Hall,  Isle  of  Shoals. 
Rev    John   Huss,   Cherokee  Indians,  and  the  Dwight  School, 

Cherokee   Mission;    Rev.   William   G.    Eliot,  Missouri;    Rev. 

William  P.  Huntington,  Rev.  George  Morse,  and  Rev.  Joseph 

Harrington,  Illinois. 
Rev.  Abraham  Plumer,  Isle  of  Shoals  [to  1S87]. 
,     Rev.   Mordacai   De   Lange,   St.  Louis;    Rev.  William  H.  Lord, 

Wisconsin;  the  Wesleyan  Seminary,  Michigan  [to  1861J. 

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1846. 


1847. 
1848. 


1849. 
1851. 
1852. 

1853. 


1854- 


Rev.  A.  K.  Conant  [to  1857],  and  Rev.  G.  W.  Woodward,  Illi- 
nois ;  Rev.  Eleazer  Williams,  Oneida  Indians,  Green  Bay ; 
Rev.  J.  P.  Bardwell,  Ojibway  Indians. 

Rev.  Henry  Emmons,  Vernon,  N.  Y. 

Rev.  P.  J.  May,  Onondaga  Indians ;  Rev.  E.  I.  Gerry,  Maine ; 
Rev.  T.  C.  Adams,  Michigan ;  Rev.  L.  D.  Blodget,  Isle  of 
Shoals. 

Twinsburg  Seminary,  Ohio  [to  1882]. 

Rev.  O.  D.  Eastman,  Isle  of  Shoals. 

Rev.  William  A.  Fuller,  Illinois ;  Rev.  C.  Bray,  Gay-Head 
Indians. 

Rev.  Thomas  D.  Howard,  Maine  [to  1859]  ;  Rev.  Rufus  E.  King, 
St.  Regis  Indians,  New  York  [to  1856];  Rev.  William  Barry^ 
Massachusetts  ;  Rev.  Edward  Edmunds,  Western  States  ;  Rev. 
John  Mason  [to  1855],  and  Mr.  I  S.  Thaxter,  Isle  of  Shoals; 
Rev.  Mr.  Krebbs,  Colpoy's  Bay,  L  r      •    to  i860]. 

Rev.  Joel  Adams,  Matinicus  [to  1859],  ~  .  William  D.  Haley, 
Illinois  [to  1856];  the  Lawrence  University,  Wisconsin  [to 
1878J. 


[The  following  are  compiled  from  the  Records  of  the  Society. 
The  dates  enclosed  in  parentheses  below,  and  also  added  above, 
are  the  terminations  of  aid  by  the  Society.  —  J.  F.  H.] 

1855.  Indians  at  Gay  Head,  Martha's  Vineyard  (see  1852),  Baptist  Mis- 

sion [to  1S85J  ;   repairs   of   parsonage,  Isle   of   Shoals;  Rev. 
Hiram  Wilson,  St.  Catharines,  Canada  [to  1865]. 

1856.  Onondaga  and  Oneida  (see  1846)  Indians  [to  1884];  Rev.  I.  R. 

McFarland,  Peoria,   111.   [to  1857]  ;   Rev.  George   R.   Beebe, 
Isle  of  Shoals  [to  1869]. 

1857.  Rev.  A.  Sickles,  to  educate  his  sons,  New  Oneida,  C.  W.  [to 

i860,  and  1863];  Rev.  I.  G.  Foreman,  Alton,  111.  [to  1861,  also 

1865-66];    Rev.  W.  G.  Eliot,  St.  Louis,  Mo.  [to  1858]  ;  Rev. 

Joshua  Eaton,  Isle  of  Shoals,  etc.  [to  1868J ;  Rev.  I.  M.  Lecky, 

Scandinavian   Mission  (Wisconsin  [to  1864],   Minnesota  [to 

1887J). 
1859.     ^'■-  Jordan,  interpreter,   Methodist  Mission,  St.  Regis,  N.  Y. ; 

Mr.  Cornelius   and    Mr.  Johnson,    native   preachers,  Oneida, 

N.  Y.   [to  1862]. 
i860.     Mr.  J.  A.  Mason,  Illinois  (also  1868,  1872)  ;  Rev.  John  A.  Plum- 

mer,  Matinicus  [to  1872]. 


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i86i. 

1862. 
1863. 

1864. 

1865. 

1867. 
1868. 

1S69. 

1871. 

1872. 

1873- 

1875. 


1876. 

1879. 
1881. 
1883 


Canada  Indian  Missionary  Society  [to   1873]  ;   Josiah  Henson, 

Canada  West  [to  1882]. 
Bar  Harbor  Mission,  Maine  [to  1869,  resumed  1875-78]. 
John  B.  (?),  services  in  behalf  of  Indians  at  Washington. 
Seneca  Indians,  N.  Y.,  Maris  B.  Pierce  [to  1886J  ;   L.  F.  Plum- 

mer,  Little  Deer  Isle,  Maine  [to  1868J. 
Jasper  L.  Douthit,  Southern  Illinois  ;  J.  S.  Lincoln,  Richmond. 
Rev.  Mr.  Mason,  Illinois  [to  1874]. 

Wilberforce  University,  Ohio  [to  1874] ;  African  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Missionary  Society  [to  1874]. 
Mr.    D.   W.    Stevens,   Tisbury,   Martha's  Vineyard  [to    1882]  ; 

Howard  Free  School  for  Colored  Persons. 
National  Theological   Institute   for  Colored,  Washington,  D.  C. 

[to  1873]  -,  WiUiam  Hewes,  Isle  of  Shoals. 
Indians  in  Southern  Missouri  and   Kansas,  Mrs.  H.  C.    Watts 

[to  1874]. 
Hampton  Institute,  Hampton,  Va.  [to  1887]  ;  E.  N.  Peirce,  Long 

Island,  Maine  [to  1877]. 
Woodville  Farm  School,  Georgia  [to  1878] ;  Lincoln  Institute  for 
Colored  Persons,  Missouri  [to  1881];  Thomas  L.  Elliot,  Port- 
land, Oregon  [to  1887] ;  Claflin  University,  South  Carolina  [to 

1887]. 
Harriet  D.  Watts,  Florida  [to  1878]  ;  E.  H.  Danforth,  Colorado 

[to  1877]  ;  Miss  S.  J.  Bell,  South  Carolina  [to  1877]. 
Drury  College,  Missouri  [to  1882]. 
J.  D.  Robertson  (?). 
T.  L.  Riggs,  Dakota  [to  1886]. 


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At  the  last  semi-annual  meeting  of  the  Society,  in  Novem- 
ber, notice  was  given  that  at  the  next  meeting  a  motion 
would  be  made  to  repeal  all  By-Laws,  Rules,  and  Regulations 
heretofore  adopted  by  this  Society  and  then  in  force,  except 
so  far  as  adopted  and  ratified  at  said  meeting ;  and  for  this 
purpose  the  following  vote  is  now  offered :  — 


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Voted,  That  all  By-Laws,  Rules,  and  Regulations  hereto- 
fore adopted  by  this  Society  and  now  in  force  be  and  hereby 
are  repealed,  except  so  far  as  adopted  and  ratified  at  this 
meeting  ;  and  that  the  following  By-Laws  be  and  hereby  are 
adopted  and  ratified  as  the  By-Laws  of  this  Society. 

Th"^.  vote  was  passed  at  the  Annual  Meeting,  May  26,  1887. 


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wmmm06mm&itmtm 


BY-LAWS. 

Adopted  at  the  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Society,  May  26,  18S7. 


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I. 

Beside  the  choice  of  a  President,  Vice-President,  Treasurer,  and 
Secretary  required  by  Charter  to  be  made  on  the  Thursday  succeed- 
ing the  last  Wednesday  in  May,  annually,  there  shall  be  chosen, 
at^'such  time,  a  Vice-Treasurer  and  Assistant  Secretary ;  a  Select 
Committee,  to  consist  of  five  persons,  together  with  the  President ; 
and  a  Committee  of  three  to  audit  the  Treasurer's  accounts. 

Any  extraordinary  occurrence,  however,  preventing  the  choice  on 
the  said  day,  they  may  be  chosen  at  the  next  stated  meeting ;  and 
each  shall  hold  his  office  until  some  other  person  shall  have  been 
chosjH  in  his  place. 

II. 

Of  the  President  and  Vice-President. 

1.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  President  to  preside  in  all  meetings 
of  tiie  Society  and  of  the  Select  Committee,  to  regulate  the  debates, 
to  state  and  put  all  questions  regularly  made,  and  to  call  for  reports 
from  committees  or  others. 

2.  In  case  of  the  absence  of  the  President  at  any  of  the  meetmgs, 
the  Vice-President,  if  present,  shall  preside  ;  and  in  case  of  the 
absence  of  both,  any  member  present  may  be  nominated  and  chosen 
for  that  purpose. 


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III. 

Of  the  Select  Committee. 

1.  The  Select  Committee  shall,  from  time  to  time,  consider  of, 
prepare,  and  report  such  matters  and  things  to  the  stated  meetings 
as  they  shall  judge  necessary  to  be  laid  before  the  Society ;  and  in 
general  such  plans  and  measures  as  they  shall  conceive  best  calcu- 
lated for  accomplishing  the  benevolent  designs  of  the  institution. 
This  shall  not,  however,  preclude  any  member  from  laying  before, 
or  proposing  to,  the  Society  any  matter  or  thing  which  he  may 
think  beneficial. 

2.  The  Select  Committee  shall  give  instructions  to  the  mission- 
aries who  may  be  employed,  —  the  same  being  conformable  to  the 
rules  of  the  Society,  or  not  repugnant  thereto,  ~  examine  their 
journals,  and  make  inquiry  into  the  success  of  theii  missions  and 
all  matters  that  concern  the  same,  and  make  report  from  time  to 
time  to  the  Society. 

J.  The  Select  Committee  shall  direct  the  Secretary  in  such  cor- 
respondence as  they  sh-H  judge  necessary. 

4.  The  Select  Committee  shall  examine  all  accounts  exhibited 
against  the  Society  ;  and  the  certificate  of  the  Secretary  shall  be 
a  sufficient  authority  to  the  Treasurer  for  payment  agreeably  to 
the  appropriations  and  votes  of  the  Society. 

5.  The  Select  Committee  shall  hold  a  meeting  within  thirty  days 
before  each  stated  meeting  of  the  Society.  The  Secretary  shall 
appoint  and  notify  the  time  and  place  of  such  meeting  at  least 
twenty-four  hours  previous  thereto. 


IV. 

Of  the  Secretary. 

I.  The  Secretary  shall  have  the  charge  of  the  statute  and  letter 
books,  the  Seal  of  the  Society,  and  of  all  letters,  which  letters  shall 
be  kept  by  him  on  regular  file ;  and  he  shall  attend,  if  possible, 
all  meetings  of  the  Society  and  of  the  Select  Committee,  and  at 


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each  meeting  of  the  Society  read  the  orders  and  entries  of  the  pre- 
ceding meeting,  take  notes  of  the  orders  and  transactions  of  the 
present  meeting,  and  enter  the  same  in  the  books  to  wliich  they 
respectively  relate  ;  and  shall,  in  like  manner,  note  the  doings 
of  the  Select  Committee. 

2.  The  Secretary  shall,  from  time  to  time,  lay  before  the  Society 
such  communications  as  he  shall  have  received,  and  such  corre- 
spondences as  he  shall  have  carried  on  under  the  direction  of  the 
Society  or  the  Select  Committee. 

3.  The  Secretary  shall  record,  in  a  book  to  be  kept  for  that  pur- 
pose, or  in  some  distinct  part  of  his  record  book,  all  appropriations 
of  money  made  by  the  Society  ;  all  donations,  by  whom,  and,  when 
specially  appropriated,  to  what  uses ;  all  real  and  personal  estate 
acquired  by  the  Society,  by  purchase  or  otherwise,  and  all  sales  of 
real  estate  made  by  the  Society;  and  such  record  shall  be  laid 
before  the  Society  at  each  meeting. 

4.  In  the  absence  of  the  Secretary,  the  Assistant  Secretary  shall 
possess  the  same  powers,  and  be  charged  with  the  same  duties  as 
the    Secretary. 

V. 
Of  the  Treasurer  and  Vice-Treasurer. 

1.  The  Treasurer  shall  receive  officially  all  moneys,  or  sums  of 
money,  due  or  payable,  and  all  bequests  and  donations  that  may 
be  made  to  the  Society,  and  invest  and  care  for  the  same  to  the 
best  advantage  of  the  Society,  and  in  such  manner  as  he  shall 
judge  conducive  to  its  benefit,  except  in  cases  where  the  mode  of 
investment  or  care  therefor  shall  be  especially  po^'nted  out  by  the 
donor  or  by  the  Society,  or  by  advice  of  the  L^eJect  Committee 
during  any  recess  of  the  Society. 

2.  The  Treasurer  shall  pay  such  sums  of  money  out  of  the 
Treasury  as  he  shall  have  orders  for,  pursuant  to  the  regulations 
and  directions  of  the  Society,  and  not  otherwise. 

3.  The  Treasurer  shall,  in  a  book  to  be  kept  for  that  purpose, 
enter  all  the  estate  of  the  Society,  both  real  and  personal,  specify- 
ing what  is  appropriated  and  what  i^  not,  and  for  what  uses,  if 
appropriated  by  the  Society,  or  any  donor. 


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4.  Previous  to  every  stated  meeting,  the  Treasurer's  accounts 
shall  be  audited  by  the  Committee  for  examining  the  Treasurer's 
accounts,  and  in  said  Committee  not  more  than  one  of  the  Select 
Committee  shall  be  included. 

5.  In  case  of  the  death,  resignation,  absence  from  the  State,  or 
removal  of  the  Treasurer,  the  Vice-Treasurer  shall,  during  such 
absence  or  until  the  election  of  a  new  Treasurer,  have  and  exercise 
all  the  powers  of  that  office. 

VI. 

Of  Meetings. 

1.  Previous  to  each  stated  meeting  of  the  Society,  the  Secretary 
shall  give  public  notice,  in  one  or  more  of  the  Boston  newspapers, 
at  least  three  days  before  such  meeting,  a-  !  ^y  printed  or  written 
notification  thereof  sent  to  each  member  of  the  Society  to  such 
address  as  he  shall  believe   is  correct,  indicating  the  hour  and 

place. 

2.  Occasional  meetings  shall  be  called  whenever  the  President, 
or  in  his  absence  the  Vice-President,  shall  direct  the  same,  or  at 
the  request  of  the  Select  Committee,  or  when  a  request  is  signified 
in  writing  by  any  three  of  the  members  to  the  President  or  Secre- 
tary ;  and  such  occasional  meetings  shall  be  notified  in  the  manner 
above  provided.  The  Secretary  shall  also  seasonably  notify  the 
meetings  of  the  Select  Committee. 

3.  The  Secretary  shall  seasonably,  before  each  stated  meeting, 
remind  the  Committee  for  auditing  the  Treasurer's  accounts  of  the 
business  of  their  commission. 

VII. 

Of  Election  of  Members. 

I.  Candidates  for  election  as  members  of  this  Society  shall  be 
nominated  for  that  purpose  at  some  stated  meeting  of  the  Society 
previous  to  the  election.  Every  member  of  the  Society  shall  have 
the  right  of  nominating,  at  his  dip  ;retion,  by  entering,  in  a  book  to 


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be  kept  by  the  Secretary  for  that  purpose,  the  name  and  place  of 
residence  of  the  candidate,  with  his  addition,  noting  the  time  of 
the  nomination  and  accompanying  it  with  his  own  signature  ;  and 
it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Secretary  to  announce  all  existing  nomi- 
nations before  the  dissolution  of  each  stated  meeting,  said  nomina- 
tions to  be  announced  at  such  time  in  the  meeting  as  the  President 
and  Secretary  in  their  judgment  shall  consider  best  calculated  to 
give  general  notice  thereof. 

2.  Elections  of  members  shall  be  made  at  a  stated  meeting  (and 
at  no  other),  from  the  persons  on  the  nomination  list,  by  ballot,  or 
written  votes,  on  which  the  name  of  the  person  voted  for  shall  be 
expressed  without  regard  to  the  order  in  which  the  nominations 
may  be  made.  The  votes  of  three  fourths  of  the  members  present 
shall  be  necessary  to  constitute  a  choice. 

3.  Nominations   of   more    than    three  years'   standing   shall   be 
erased  from  the  nomination  book,  but  may  be  renewed. 


VIII. 

Of  Absences  from  Meetings. 

1.  Any  member  who  shall  be  absent  from  four  successive  stated 
meetings  of  the  Society  without  being  excused  therefor  by  the 
Society  shall  be   considered  as  thereby  resigning  his  place  as  a 

member. 

2.  This  By-Law  shall  be  printed  upon,  and  form  a  part  of,  every 

notice  of  a  stated  meeting. 


IX. 

Of  Missionaries. 

1.  Missionaries  may  be  appointed  by  the  Society  at  any  stated 
meeting,  or  by  the  Select  Committee. 

2.  It  shall  be  a  standing  instruction  to  the  missionaries  to  trans- 
mit to  the  President  or  Secretary,  quarterly  if  practicable,  a  journal 
of  their  proceedings,  which  shall  be  laid  before  the  Select  Com- 

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niittee,  and  by  Uicm  be  communicated  to  the  Society,  in  order  that 
a  true  knowled{^e  may  be  had  of  the  state,  circumstances,  and 
prospects  of  their  respective  missions. 

3.  Missionaries  may  be  suspentled  for  neglect  of  duty  or  any 
gross  immorality,  by  order  of  the  President,  with  advice  of  the 
Select  Committee,  during  the  recess  of  the  Society  ;  and  at  the  next 
meeting  of  the  Society  such  suspension  may  be  taken  off  or  con- 
tinued as  the  Society  shall  think  fit,  and  for  like  causes  the  Society 
may  dismiss  them. 

X. 

These  By-Laws  may  be  altered,  amended,  or  repealed  at  any 
stated  meeting  of  the  Society,  by  a  vote  of  two  thirds  of  the  mem- 
bers present  and  voting  at  the  meeting. 


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INDEX. 


ALFORD,  J.,  his  Rift,  8,  9, 
12,  1 8,  23,  24,  26,  29-30, 
32;  plans,  27,  30-31;  pro- 
fessorship, 30. 

Alclrich,  39. 

Allen,  38. 

Andrews,  37. 

Appleton,  34. 

Armstrong,  39. 

Aspinwall,  38. 

DARNARD,  11,35. 

liarrett,  36, 

I'arry,  37.  42. 
IJartol,  36. 
Bates,  II,  35. 
Belknap,  34. 
Bigclow,  33,  38,41. 
Blagden,  27- 
Kond,  34,  36. 
Bowdoin,  1 7,  23,  34. 
Boyle,  R.,  6. 
Bradford,  11,  33,  40. 
Brief  (17SS),  12,  18. 

Brooks,  39. 
Budington,  t,7- 
Bussey,  35. 

CANTERBURY,  Archb., 

Gary,  R.,  8, 18,  27-31 ;  elect- 
ed, 8,  32,  34. 
Chaney,  38. 
Channing,  35. 
Chaplin,  36, 
Charlestown,  27. 
Chase,  38. 

<^1^PP7  37.  40,  41. 

Clark,  5,  13. 

Cobb,  4,  34,  39. 

Codman,  11,  35. 

Colleges  helped,  Claflin, 
S.  C,  Drury,  Mo.,  Lin- 
coln, Mo.,  and  Wilber- 
force,  O.,  43. 


Ccnimissioncrs  U.  C,  6. 
Coolidgc,  4,  37,  39. 
Corporators,  5,  13. 
Craiich,  5,  ij. 
Cutler,  35. 

DANA,  13. 

Davis,  35,  40. 
Dawes,  34,  33. 
Denny,  37. 
De  Normandie,  ;2?), 
Dexter,  24,  34. 
Dillingham,  39. 
Doddridge,  19, 
Dole,  39. 
Diiryea,  39. 

ECKLEY,5,  ,,,  ,3. 

Edes,  39. 

Eliot,  5,  13,  32,  35,  36,  39, 

41.43- 
Ellis,  22y  37- 
Emerson,  37,  40. 
Emmons,  5,  13,  37,  42. 
Endicott,  39. 
Episcopacy,  7. 

FAIRBANKS,  34,  1,7. 
Fearing,  37. 
Field,  36. 
Foote,  4,  38. 
Foster,  II,  35. 
Francis,  36. 
Frisbee,  5,  11,  13,  40. 

GANNE'  r,  35. 
George  III.,  7,  17. 
Gile,  35. 

Gill,  5,  13,  16,  24,  T,2,' 
Gould,  37. 
Greele,  37. 
Greenough,  34,  35. 
Guild,  3(,,  38. 

HALE,  4,  38. 
Hall,  37,  41. 


Harris,  it,  35. 
Harvard  Coll.,  7,  9,  30. 
Hedge,  35. 
1  erford,  39. 

I''".  ?>7,  39. 
Hillard,  ^y. 
Hilliard,  5,  13,  32,  T,r>, 
HisTOKicAL  .Sketches,  5- 
10,  17-23,  23-25;  list,  12. 

iJo-"-.  33.  3^'.  37- 
Homes,  11,33,34. 
Holyoke,  35. 
Hornbrookc,  39, 
Howard  34,  ^2. 
Hubbard,  36. 
Humphreys,  6. 
Hunne\veil,J.F.,  4,  12,  39; 

editor,  1-43,51-52. 
Huntington,  35,  :,y,  41. 
Hyslop,  5,  13,  24,  35. 

INDIANS,  education,  6,  7; 
missions,  14,  17,  19,  24,  28- 
29;  Canada,  10,  41-43; 
Cape  Cod,  41  ;  Chero- 
kees,  9,  41 ;  Colorado,  43  ; 
Florida,  43  ;  Gay  Head, 
42;  Maine,  40,  41,  43; 
Marshpee,  9,  10,  40,  41  ; 
Nantucket,  9,  41 ;  Narra- 
gansetts,  9;  N.  York,  9, 
40-42 ;  Ojibw.iys,  10,  42  ; 
Oneidas,  10,  40,  42;  Onou- 
dagas,  10,  42  ;  Oregon,  43 ; 
Fenobscots,  9;  Senecas,9, 
43;  Vinevard,  9,  iS,  40- 
43;  Western,  41, 42;  \Vy- 
aiidots,  9. 

JACKSON,  36, 
Jenks,  4,  36,  38. 
Johnson,  4,  39,  40. 

KENDALL,  11,35. 
Kinnicutt,  37. 
Kirkland,  35,  40. 


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LAMSON,  37. 

Lathrop,  7,  11,34. 

Lawrence,  36,  39. 

1.66;  34. 

Lincoln,  4,  2,7,  39,  43- 

Little,  27,  28,  29,  34,  39,  40. 

Loring,  36. 

Lothrop,  33,  34,  36,  38. 

Loud,  38. 

Lowell,  II,  34,  35. 

Lurt,  37. 

Lyman,  39,  40. 

MANNING,  39. 

Marshall,  39. 

Mason,  5,  13,  24,  34,  42,  43. 

Maudnit,  17. 

Mayhew,  18,  40. 

McKean,  35. 

McKenzie,  4,  33,  38. 

Means,  38. 

Meetings,  14,  15,32,48,  49. 

ilelledge,  38. 

Members,  lists,  11;  1787- 
18S7,  34-39;  election  of, 
48 ;  absences  of,  49. 

Miles,  36,  41. 

Minot,  37. 

Missionaries,  old  lists,  11; 
1787-18S7,  39-43;  early, 
20-21,  28-29;  charge  to, 
22 ;  pay  of,  21,  22 ;  qualifi- 
cations, 14,  21. 

ft!  issiONS  of  the  Soc. ;  Bur- 
lington, Chicago,  8;  Isle 
of  Shoals,  9,  24,  40-43 ; 
Illinois,  41-43 ;  Maine,  9, 
24,  40-43;  Mass.,  8,  40, 
42 ;  Michigan,  42 ;  Mis- 
souri, 41,  42;  N.  York.  -., 
42  ;  Ohio,  8,  9,  41 ;  Rh  jde 
Island,  40,  41 ;  Vcf-ont, 
9,  40,  41 ;  Western,  8,  9, 
41,  42;  Wisconsin,  41,  42. 
Sec  Indians. 

Morison,  4,  t^j, 

Morse,  11,  33,34,  41. 

Moseley,  38. 

NEALE,  38. 
Newell,  38, 
New  Jersey  Coll.,  -^o, 
Noyes,  37,  41. 

OFFICERS,  choosing,  14, 
16,45-48;  for  1887,  4. 


PALFREY,  36. 
Parish,  11,  35,  40. 
Park,  37. 
Parker,  35,  41. 
Parkman,  33,  35,  39. 
Parliament,  Act,  6. 
Payson,  5,  13,  40. 
Peabody,  4,  33,  36,  38,  39. 
Pearson,  35. 
i-erkins,  4,  38. 
Phillips,  24,  33-35,  37. 
Pierce,  35,  39,  43. 
Plumer,  41,  42,  43. 
Porter,  5,  11,  13,  35,  41. 
Prentiss,  35. 
Puritanism,  6,  7. 
Pu'Mam,  36. 

QUINCY,  36. 

REED,  35,  40. 

Reports,   7,  9;   list  of,  11; 

(17th  cent.),  6. 
Reynolds,  39. 
Ripley,  36. 
Robbins,  36. 
Rogers,  35,  37,41. 
Roman  Catholic,  28-29. 
Rules,  printed,  11 ;  present, 

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45-50. 

Russell,  24,  T,;^,  34,  39. 

SABINE,  38. 

Salisbury,  34,  35,  38. 

Saltonstall,  36. 

Savage,  34,  36. 

Schools,  25;  helped,  Hamp- 
ton, Howard,  and  Wood- 
ville,  43. 

Sears,  38. 

Seaver,  37. 

Seminaries  helped;  Law- 
rence, Wis.,  42;  Twins- 
burg,  0.,  42 ;  Washington, 
D.  C,  43 ;  Wesleyan, 
Mich.,  41. 

Shattuck,  38. 

Shaw,  33.  36,  40. 

Sleeper,  38. 

Societies:  The Aiucrican; 
incorporation,  5,  17-1S; 
Act  of,  J?,  13-16,  17;  ac- 
counts 16;  books  and 
tracts  distributed,  9, 19,  20, 
24,  25;  discourses  to,  11; 


funds,  7-8,  (25th  year)  8, 
^1845^  9,  14,  18,  19,  24, 
^1803)  26,  29 ;  investments, 
8,  26;  see  Missions  and 
Indians;  powers  of  Soc, 
15-16;  publications,  12; 
subscriptions  to,  23-24. 
Societies:  Charles  If.,  5  , 
Christian  Knowledge,  7 ; 
Commonwealth,  6 ;  Scot- 
tish, 7,  1 7 ;    William  III., 

Sprag.'e,  37. 
Stearns,  34,  35,  38. 
Storer,  5,  13,  24,  26,  30,  34. 
Story,  36. 

Sullivan,  33,  34,  36. 
Sumner,  5,  13. 

TAPPAN,  35. 
Thacher,  account,  7,  11,  17- 
23 ;  also,  5,  13,  23,  32-34, 

36. 
Thayer,  37. 
Thomas,  38. 
Thompson,  36,  40. 
Ticknor,  35. 
Treadwe!!,  35. 
Tuckerman,  11,  35. 
Tufts,  34. 
Tyng,  35. 

UPHAM,  T,j. 

WALKER,  36. 
Walley,  34,  35. 
Ward,  36. 
Ware,  35,  36. 
Warren,  36,39,  41. 
Washburn,  38. 
Waterston,  37, 
Webster,  35,  40. 
v-^ells,  38. 

Wendell,  5,  13,  31,  33. 
West,  34. 
White,  34,  36. 
Wigglesworth,  5,  13,  33,  ^j. 
Wight,  5,  13. 
Willard,  5,  13. 
Williams,  5,  13. 
Wiener,  11,  36. 
Wolcott,  4,  37,  38. 
Woodbridge,  34. 
Wyllys,  24. 

YOUNG,  36. 


